ignoring the obvious point of how filthy they're going to be--those chairs are ginormous! How many are you considering outting around your 47 x 24" desk sized dining table????

It looks like an accent chair for a living room, not the dining table. I wouldn't use them in the dining room, too big. If you decide to anyway you could use a "runner" that tucks into the seat and hangs over the back, you would lose the cool tufting but you would add color to the chairs and protect them. I would also put scotch guard on them regardless of where you use them.
They are beautiful.

Had you considered using only two of those chairs - just on either end - and finding smaller ones to fit on the sides?
I am a big fan of scotchguarding, and absent small children, I think it is fine to use them as dining room chairs.

Check the seat height. These may be too low for dining.

Is the marble top white? If so, these may make the marble top look dingy, or vice-versa. I'm a big fan of white-on-white, but it doesn't always work.

If you want tufted dining chairs, why not these?
http://www.restorationhardware.com/rh/catalog/product/product.jsp?productId=prod1152033&navCount=2

They're not that much more at $435 in the cheapest base fabric, they're actually designed for dining and you can pick the color you want.

Storehouse is going out of business you might try them. The web site only has the store locator so that was no help. I can't recall if there were any tufted chairs but they had some cool designs by Jonathan Adler.

If you go all white in the dining room, no red wine or red marinara sauces and you'll be fine. Or if you do have a colorful meal, incorporate the runner idea. Sounds like a clever way to give some color to the room and protect the furniture.

Soot never sleeps. Dirty dirty dirty.

White's fine for the dining room, if you have slipcovers and the material can be bleached (such as linen or cotton), or if they're microsuede. I recovered my dining chairs in white microsuede and I inherited 3 cats... they can't get their claws through it and the fabric doesn't stain (some microsuede can be washed but spills, including red wine, just wipes right off). So my only concern for you with these chairs would be that they're velvet (which, depending on its composition, doesn't always Scotchguard well).

No way on white. Because even if you can avoid ever spilling on it, dirt and dust are going to make it look grimy and icky in just a year or so.

A good friend of mine had a beautiful white chair that I used to really admire and be envious of...until I visited her a year later, and it was grimy and dull, despite her best efforts.

I hate it that I sound like my mother, but I'm beginning to realize she's right on this one.

I agree with P2 100%.

Is your table like the bistro table in the FSBO post linked to my name? I have the same kind, although mine is whiter than the one in the link. If your table is like those bistro tables, my concern is that the table top may have a greyish tone, whereas the chairs have a cream tone, which might not look good together. Otherwise I think the style of those chairs is great with the table. I totally see why you are excited!

Like P2, I was also concerned when I saw the chair pic that it would be too low. I just measured the chair I am using with the table, and it is 19", which is just one inch below the JC Penny chairs.

My 2 cents:

I love, love, love white and love the idea of white chairs around the table you describe. I LOVE white-on-white!!!

That said, the scheme, as everyone has pointed out, is wildly impractical in New York. I have had to find grime-colored paint (almost there!) for my walls, ultrasuede everything, and beigy-cream for things in my place because of the GRIME.

My advice: Buy one or two chairs if you love them. You can always get slipcovers or place them in the least grime-prone place in your apartment. You will regret not having bought chairs you love.

As to your dining room chair dilemma, I would recommend re-thinking your chair preferences and trying to find something you can just wipe down (just wood or metal or such?) so that you get longevity out of the chairs.

I know from bitter experience, white upholstery doesn't cut it in Manhattan. Nor does it cut it in an apartment with pets, children, or husbands. Nor does it cut it around menopausal women.

Please write again to let us know what you've decided. I have faced similar dilemmas and am still working out the new schemes I can work with.

Best of luck from your kindred spirit in design taste. tgraves12@yahoo.com

I rent a saltwater farm in Maine from a woman named Cindy Lang, who wrote a book on decorating with dogs, though the title now escapes me, and her solution is white slipcovers in washable cotton. The white really pops against soothing neutral paint on the walls, and it looks fresh and clean. I've stayed there with 3 long-haired dogs, no problem, everything goes in the wash for the next tenant. She has a website for the houses she owns and rents, and those she brokers, and her design sense is evident in all of them. Check out saltwater farm for the best shots of the slipcover solution. www.martinsvillemaine.com

Thanks so much for all the recommendations! Really appreciate it. Have I mentioned lately how much I love AT? I was going to do 2 chairs (since 9/10 of the time it's just me and my fiance) and buy a bench for when random visitors stop by. The fabric, per the website is velvet. Even though I live in NYC, I'm out in Queens in a very-much residential section so the grime-factor isn't really too bad out here.

The table is mostly white with big splashes of black and tan in it. It has a cast iron trellis base.

I love the chairs at Restoration Hardware that were suggested, but with shipping & tax it goes well over $1000 and my budget is WAY limited. I was hoping to find something on Craigs, but haven't been lucky - yet.

I'm off to check out all the other great sites that were recommended. Thanks all! ---Jean

Lori 2 - Yes, the table is very similar to yours - but rectangular rather than oval. By the way, your cats are adorable!!

I had been searching for this table for several months and then THREE of them popped up on Craigslist the same week. Bizarre. Glad to know it's from Conran's - I was wondering where it had hailed from.

Hey Jean,

The link is not my place. It was someone else who posted FSBO on AT. I was just commenting that I had the same one - but whiter than the one in from the AT post.

Funny, I had also been searching and searching for the same table. I have a feeling that most are coming second hand and not from shops (like in the case of the one in the link). The story of how I got mine is really long, but I ended up buying it from a cafe that was being renovated.

Where in Queens are you?

Woodside - which is sadly becoming "hipster-land". Oh well, whatcha gonna do!?!?!

I would check ballard.designs.com.

You know what, I say go for it!

You love them, you love your table, you and your honey are going to love sitting at your fabulous table in them, and they're very reasonably priced. If you get proven wrong, you can always reupholster, or go with a lower-maintenance option you find on craigslist and just recall happily your many, many meals on the great-looking white chairs. At least you'll have gone for what your gut wanted!

There are a lot worse mistakes you could make for $600, and the fabric is sure to last you long enough to make them worth the investment, even in the worst-case scenario comes to be.

That said, I would recommend sitting in them first, and/or making sure that the fine print will allow you to return them if they really are the wrong seat height/pitch etc. for the table - which I consider much harder to find than fabrics!

Enjoy...