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. Weโre not exactly sure what we want yet, but we know we want them to be red, comfortable, on the modern sideโฆand available in knock-off form (!). Based on this criteria, weโve narrowed it down to the nine you see above. Vote for your favorite in the comment field below and Iโll choose one reader at random to receive a copy of bothย Dinner: A Love Story and, almost hot off the presses:ย Dinner: The Playbook. (When I hit the bigtime, maybe then Iโll be able to offer a full dining set as the giveaway โ 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.ย
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).
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5 because it looks comfy. Although I also like 8 because I had to stare at it a while before I realized it wasnโt a glass of red wine!
I like five. It seems stylish, practical and comfortable.
Love #5, although the Eames chairs are beautiful in red and the plastic is so easy to clean!
LOVE LOVE LOVE chair number two!
I agree, comfort is key, but by style, I like 3 and 5
I vote #9!
I love 9
LOVE the tulip chair #8 โ and they are on overstock for CHEAP!
Originally went for 7 until I saw the dining room in which they will be used and immediately changed my choice to 3โฆyes, 3 it is!
#1, Tolix all the way!
#3 is the winner for me!
I love 5โฆ.but 3 may be a little more classic.
The Vienna (#4) is my pick!
Wow, lots of votes for #3, which is also my vote!
#7! The lights look great with your red chairs.
#3 or #6
5!!
I like 7, but 5 looks super comfortable.
Number 1!
#5 is gorgeous, but itโs hard to tell how much space it will take up around a round table. I also love #9. I think either would work fabulously.
No. 5 looks the most comfortable, and I personally like the most the design of 8 (it is just like a glass filled with red wine!), but I guess any of the remaining will fit your dinning room better โ 2 or 9 are more fancy, if you want to add some more flavor to the room. The idea I think might be also that each of you select his/her favorite one or second favorite if the same repeats and you buy four different chairs. Everyone will have his/her chair then. When I was a child (had two brothers) we always struggle who sits where and it is so nice to have your own, somehow marked place.
I love Eames chairs, personally. Plus theyโre comfortable! Also like #2.
I vote #9 as I tried one just like it today and it was very comfortable. Also love the wishbone one but I think its arms may get in the way of smaller diners.
4โฆor 5, b/c it looks a little more comfortable. Unless 5 is too big for the table. Good luck deciding!
#5 Wishbone chair!!