So I need your help: After seven years of garden variety family wear and tear, our red dining chairs are just about on their last legs. I get so many comments about them on this blog that I thought you might have some strong opinions about what the next ones should be. We’re not exactly sure what we want yet, but we know we want them to be red, comfortable, on the modern side…and available in knock-off form (!). Based on this criteria, we’ve narrowed it down to the nine you see above. Vote for your favorite in the comment field below and I’ll choose one reader at random to receive a copy of both Dinner: A Love Story and, almost hot off the presses: Dinner: The Playbook. (When I hit the bigtime, maybe then I’ll be able to offer a full dining set as the giveaway — and maybe not even the knock-offs.) Your choices:
1. Tolix Chair 2. Globus Chair 3. Salt Chair 4. Thonet Vienna Chair 5. Wishbone Chair 6. Thonet Era Chair 7. Navy Chair 8. Saarinen Tulip Chair 9. Eames Molded Chair.
Contest ends Thursday, 8/21 at noon ET. Good luck! UPDATE: The winner (Rosie: #384) has been notified. Thanks for playing everyone!
RIP my beautiful red chairs that are no longer available on the interweb (as far as I can tell).
Related: Click here for a massive modern chair resource.
Oooo! I love number 7. but thinking number 5 would keep you closer to the vibe you have going on right now. Change is good, right?! so 7 for sure!
#5 is my fave!
I like #3 the best!
I’d go with 5!
3 or 7, whichever is more comfortable
I only want to sit in #5!
#5!! No question!
3 or 2.
I love #5 but they might drive you nuts if you can’t just wipe them down .
So then I’d go for #2!
#9 is probably the most comfortable for little bottoms and bigger butts. Probably not metal or those with flat, small seats like 3, 4 and 6. They tend to hurt after a while. 5, although stylish and looks comfortable is pretty impractical with the rush seat, as is 8 (looks like fabric). Good luck!
We have something very similar to #3 (I think they were called Boothbay from Maine Cottage) in red no less and they are great, although I’ve admired #2 at a friend’s house. We have Tolix chairs outside and I’ve got to tell you, that metal can be a little hard to sit on after I while. I don’t know why wood would feel any softer, but it does 🙂
#3! (Random aside: on my screen #8 looks like a glass of red wine.)
#4 or #6 – I keep seeing the arch in the picture when looking at the back of the chairs
3 and 5 are my favorites
#5! classic but still clean looking.
2. Globus. Hands down.
3!
Now I want new dining room chairs!
I would chose 7 based on comfort and the red color goes all the way down the leg. I like some of these but the legs are not red so they wouldn’t look as good in your space. Hope this helps.
I love 5 and 7, but I think the metal on the navy chair would be cold…. So i’d choose 7.
salt (no. 3) for sure! comfy, versatile and really adorable.
9, but I love all of them!
I agree with many, #3, it is comfortable, classic and modern at the same time…in red! We have similiar chairs, in boring brown, that we have eaten our dinner at for 33 years, now with the grands 🙂
#3, classic but modern.
4 or 6
Hi, do you know who produced those red chairs you *used to have?