BH | Studio Shaftesbury Curved-Arm Dining Chair

In English dining rooms of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the chairs with arms were kept for the head and foot of the table, where the host sat to carve, and they are still called carvers. A low, sloping arm keeps that sense of occasion while letting the chair slide close to the table.

This chair has a rounded, scooped back that flows down into low arms, giving you somewhere to rest your elbows without crowding the table, padded with dense foam over a sturdy frame of wood and plywood. Its cover is a stain-resistant performance velvet, a cut-pile cloth with a soft sheen that copes with the drips of everyday meals. Four slim stainless steel legs in a brushed brass tone splay outward, ending in non-marking caps, and a small brass pull on the back gives you a handle to draw it out from the table.

Set it at a dressing table in a bedroom, at the head of a dining table with a vase of white tulips, or at a desk in a home office. It is just as pretty in a living room corner or an entryway. Chambray is fresh and gentle in daylight and Charcoal more tailored; pair either with white marble, a gilt mirror, blush walls and a pale Persian rug for a soft Parisian look. This listing is for one chair.