Wood hotel dining chairs

Wood belongs to the rooms with a roof: the hotel restaurant, the breakfast room, the private dining room off the lobby. All 95 chairs here have wood frames, and almost every one is listed for indoor use. The first decision is the seat. Most take vinyl or fabric from the listed options, and 66 can be ordered with a wood seat.

Choosing the seat by the schedule

Think about the room's day before you open the fabric book. A breakfast room that serves from six and resets for a private lunch needs a seat that wipes down in a minute, and vinyl does that: 93 of these chairs list it. Fabric, listed on 81, softens a dinner room where the tables stay set all evening. Wood seats, on 66, take no cover at all and suit the tables that see the most traffic.

Upholstery options appear on 87 chairs. Ask for swatches before you settle a color, because the listed finishes and fabrics change, and a reorder two seasons later has to match the first delivery.

The back guests see from the door

A guest walking into the restaurant sees rows of chair backs before a single plate. Upholstered backs lead here with 27 models, then curved backs at 16, vertical slats and square backs at 9 each, slat backs at 7 and bentwood at 6. A padded back appears on 29. Pick one back for the main room and repeat it, since a matched row is what makes a room look set. To narrow the list by profile, open the upholstered-back wood chairs or the bentwood chairs.

Where a listing gives a seat height, it falls between 17 3/4 and 19 3/4 inches. That suits a dining top of about 29 to 30 inches and leaves a guest 10 to 12 inches of room below the table edge.

Arms, stacking and what stays inside

Arms come on 24 of these chairs. They belong at the head table and the window tables, though each one takes more than the 24 inches of edge a side chair needs, so count the places again before ordering. The arm chairs page gathers armed models in every frame.

Only three chairs here stack. A function room that clears its floor every night is better served by stacking chairs. None of these frames carries a patio listing either: a wood chair carried out to the terrace swells and fades, and that exposure sits outside the warranty. For terrace dining, start with the outdoor chairs.

Prices start around $44 and reach $306 a chair. Save the chairs you shortlist to a property plan for the restaurant, with the tables beside them, so the count is done room by room.