Vintage Windsor Farmhouse Chair with Spindle Back
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Windsor Farmhouse Chairs in solid wood with a warm, timeworn patina. Each chair features a classic hoop back with turned spindles, a shaped seat, and a sturdy stretcher base....
Wood
Set of 10 Painted Plank Seat Grange Chairs from Maine
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Classic sturdy plank seat oak grange chairs with early gray paint, from a grange in Maine. Note: Will split the set. #5718.
Wood
Rustic Modern Sydney Dining Arm Chair with Upholstered Seat & Rush Back
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Martin & Brockett’s Sydney Dining Chair with Arms- Rush Back, Upholstered Seat features a wood frame with finial details on the chair back and arm, as well as a stylish combination o...
Rush, Wood
Vintage Rustic Reclaimed Barnwood Extending Dining Table And Chairs Set
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Rustic Reclaimed Barnwood Extending Rectangular Dining Set Gorgeous rustic reclaimed barnwood extending 2 end leaf French oak rectangular dining table and 6 matching high b...
Wood
$2,085 / item
Early English Upholstered Armchair
By Jonathan Charles
Located in Westwood, NJ
The armchair brings classic elegance to your space, updated with a relaxed, modern feel. Its tall, straight back gives it a graceful look, while the gently curved wooden arms and tur...
Fabric, Wood
$3,649 / item
Early English Leather Upholstered Armchair
By Jonathan Charles
Located in Westwood, NJ
The armchair shows the elegant style of Baroque design with its tall, straight back, balanced shape, and formal look. Inspired by the grand interiors of 17th-century French courts, t...
Leather, Wood
$3,391 / item
Modern Western Leather & Hide Accent Armchair
By Jonathan Charles
Located in Westwood, NJ
The armchair combines modern design with classic ranch-inspired materials. Its solid wood frame, finished in warm Tully Light Acacia, features an angular shape with gently curved arm...
Hide, Leather, Wood
Vintage wooden bar swivel chair, Slovenia 1992
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
The beautiful wooden barstool made in Slovenia in 1992. Made of solid beech wood in the style of the Windsor chair. 360°swivel action. Stable, solid, very comfortable. Good vintage ...
Wood, Beech
Italian Wood Dining Chair with Rush Seat, Pickle Finish, Classic Rustic Italian
Located in Dallas, TX
Dimensions: Standard dining chair proportions; solid wood frame with handwoven rush seat.
Wood
$4,800Sale Price|20% Off
1700s Rustic Pine Kubbestol, Primitive Stump Chair, Telemark Rosemaling, Norway
Located in Skien, NO
An 18th Century Antique Kubbestol from Telemark, Norway – A Sculptural Piece of Scandinavian Folk Art This exceptional Kubbestol, or traditional Norwegian stump chair, represents a ...
Pine, Wood
A BRUTALIST MID-CENTURY-MODERN RUSTIC BAR STOOL CHAIR, France 1950
By Charlotte Perriand
Located in PARIS, FR
A high bar chair, Folk Art, Rustic Modern, Modernist, solid brown wood structure with 2 slightly inclined rear legs, straw seat, low back with elegant line, to be attributed, France ...
Wood, Straw
“Tapera” Little Chair in Wool and Wood by Inês Schertel, Brazil, 2019
By Inês Schertel
Located in Deerfield Beach, FL
Contemporary “Tapera” little chair in wool and wood by Inês Schertel, Brazil 2019 Ines Schertel's primary material is sheep's wool. As a practitioner of Slow Design, the artist take...
Wood, Wool
A MID-CENTURY-MODERN RUSTIC BAR STOOL CHAIR, by ARTHUR UMANOFF, RAYMOR, USA 1950
By Arthur Umanoff
Located in PARIS, FR
An astonishing high bar chair with adjustable seat, Modernist, Free Form, Dansk, Scandinavian, black lacquered wrought iron structures, swivel seat on its axis in strips of folded wo...
Iron
Vintage Guatemalan Child's Chair, Early 20th Century
Located in Chicago, IL
Crafted in the early 20th century, this petite Guatemalan children's chair charms with its playful asymmetry and richly textured surface. Influenced by Spanish Colonial furniture des...
Wood
No matter what your dream dining experience looks like, there is a wide-ranging variety of vintage, new and antique dining room chairs on 1stDibs. Find upholstered dining room chairs, wood dining room chairs and more to outfit any space designated for a good meal, be it in your home or in the great outdoors.
In the early 18th century, most dining room tables and other furniture was designed to look masculine. In America, dining rooms weren’t even much of a concept until the late 1700s, when a space set aside specifically for dining became a part of the construction of homes for the wealthy. Dining room chairs of the era were likely made of walnut or oak. In Europe, neoclassical dining chairs emerged during the 1750s owing to nostalgia for classical antiquity, while the curving chair crests of Queen Anne furniture in the United States preceded the artistically bold seat backs that characterized the Chippendale chairs that followed. If there weren't enough dining chairs at suppertime in the American colonies, men were prioritized and women stood.
In the dining rooms of today, however, there is enough space for everyone to have a seat at the table. Modern styles introduce innovative design choices that play with shape and style. Icons of mid-century modern dining room chairs are plentiful: With its distinctive bentwood back, there is the DCW dining chair by Charles and Ray Eames, while Hans Wegner's timeless classic, the Wishbone chair, remains relevant and elegant decades after its debut. Stefano Giovannoni's White Rabbit dining chairs, in their lovable polyethylene biomorphism, reinvent what dining can look like.
Today's wide range of dining room chairs also means that they can now be styled in different ways, bringing functionality and fun to any sumptuous dining space. No longer do tables have to be accompanied by a matching set of seats. Skillfully mixing and matching colors and designs allows you to showcase your personality without sacrificing the cohesion of a given space.
By furnishing your dining room with cozy chairs — vintage, antique or otherwise — family time can extend far beyond mealtime. The plush upholstery of Victorian-style dining room chairs is perfect for game nights that stretch from dinner to midnight snack. Outdoor tables and dining chairs can also present an excellent opportunity for bonding and eating — what goes better with a delicious meal than fresh air, anyway?
Whether you prefer your chairs streamlined and stackable or ornate and one of a kind, the offerings on 1stDibs will elevate your mealtime and beyond.
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