Good Questions: Mixing Up Styles With a Dining Room Set?

AT, How would you mix-up styles with a dining room set? I recently bought an Xpand table in Walnut (it's darker than the picture) and am now on the hunt for some chairs to go with it. My house isn't super modern so I don't want to go with modern chairs. I like to have some clean, modern furniture mixed with more ornate styles...

... I definitely don't want cold plastic chairs, or just hardwood chairs. I'd like to have some fabric or padding or something to soften up the look.

My house was built in 1929, and isn't a Victorian, but has oak hardwood floors, moulding and curved archways. Any help is much appreciated!

Thanks,
karen

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Comments (10)

Why not mix it up with these vagurely Victorian-looking upholstered and tufted dining chairs from Neiman Marcus Home?

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod18150067&parentId=cat16130841&masterId=cat16130739&index=5&cmCat=cat000000cat000553cat17640731cat16130739cat16130841

Or these amazing Chinese Chippendale-style chairs in Red Lacquer from Gumps?

http://www.gumps.com/jump.jsp?itemID=9404&itemType=PRODUCT&path=1%2C2%2C6%2C154%2C159&iProductID=9404

off topic slightly...
but did you get the table here in SF? i'd love to see one in person but the website for xpand says thier only US rep is in NY?
cool find!
thanks!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Set-of-6-French-Art-Deco-Period-Walnut-Dining-Chairs_W0QQitemZ160265188649QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item160265188649&_trkparms=72%3A552

had just looked these...tres expensive, but leather seats and clean lines...about the age of your house.

what about two chinese benches? or 6 chinese chairs?

Propeller on Hayes used to have the table; not sure if they still do.

Propeller on Hayes has that table. I was there last weekend on my routine visit of my future dining table (and coffee table and couch...)

We have the cody chair from crate and barrel. It's so comfy! and will look great with that table. We got ours in a red color, but it looks like they don't offer that anymore.

http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=897&f=22536

if propeller doesn't have it in the showroom, he can probably order it for you

Benches would be wonderful or http://www.crateandbarrel.com/family.aspx?c=875&f=22565

thonet bentwood cafe chairs. natural wood or painted black. upholstered any way you wish. or (and sorry but modern lines are best with your table) mies van der rohe brno chairs.

happy hunting.

http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=104012
http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=210039
http://www.1stdibs.com/furniture_item_detail.php?id=237479