Eleanor Dining Chair - Sunkissed

The Eleanor Dining Chair in Sunkissed is 50cm wide, 56cm deep and 82cm high, upholstered over the seat and back. The back curves forward at the sides instead of running flat, so it holds you without arms. At 50cm wide it fits six around a long table without the chairs touching.

Chair width is the number that decides how many people actually fit, and it gets overlooked because tables are sold by length. Allow 60cm of table edge per person as the comfortable figure and 55cm as the tight one. A 50cm chair leaves room on either side at the comfortable spacing, which is why this one works on a table that a wider carver chair would crowd.

The curved back is doing the work that arms would do on a bigger chair. It stops you sliding sideways over a long meal without adding width or blocking the chair from pushing in.

The caveat is the seat itself. A fixed upholstered seat cannot be re-covered at home, so choose the colour for the room you have rather than the one you are planning.