Glenmore Dining Chair

A ladderback is usually the safe pick at a dining table. The Glenmore is not. Scrubbed solid oak is finished in a deep carbon that keeps the open grain visible instead of burying it, then drawn into three slender rungs so the back of the chair is mostly air. Underneath sits a natural-toned seat in a soft viscose-and-flax weave, which is what stops the whole thing from reading severe. It is a dining chair that makes a room look edited rather than furnished.

At 34 inches tall and just under 22 inches wide, it is a true armless side chair: it tucks fully under a table, lines up six-across without crowding, and leaves sightlines open in a small dining room where a solid-back chair would close the space down.

Features & Construction

• Dimensions: 21.75" W x 22" D x 34" H; seat height 20.47", seat depth 18.82"
• Frame: solid oak, scrubbed and finished in Light Carbon
• Seat: natural-toned Essence weave — 49% viscose, 22% flax-linen, 18% polyester, 11% cotton
• Webbed seat platform under a polyurethane foam cushion, boxed and knife-edged
• Open three-rung ladderback; armless side-chair profile with turned legs and side stretchers
• 24,000 double-rub abrasion rating; cleaning code W (water-based)
• 250 lb weight capacity; roughly 11.6 lb per chair
• Ships two per carton, fully assembled; indoor use
• By Four Hands

Styling Tips

The carbon oak is dark enough to act as punctuation, so it does its best work against a lighter top. Set six around a pale oak or white-marble surface from our dining tables and the frames read as graphic lines rather than bulk. On a walnut or blackened table, the contrast collapses and you get quiet, tonal depth instead — both work, they just do different jobs.

Because the seat is a neutral and the frame is nearly black, the Glenmore mixes easily with cane, rush, or a pair of upholstered host chairs at the ends when you want a collected-over-time table rather than a matched set. Pull the rest of the room together from our dining room furniture, and keep the lighting warm — a brass or aged-metal pendant picks up the natural tone in the seat and keeps the dark frame from going flat.