Roxy Dining Chair

The Roxy is a dining chair with an angular, faceted profile, made by Four Hands on a solid oak frame with butterfly joints set between the back legs. The seat and back are upholstered over webbing and foam in a performance fabric built to handle spills, stains and heavy daily use. Corner blocks, mortise and tenon joinery and nails hold the frame together, so it feels sturdy under a full dinner party.

Four Hands is an Austin, Texas design company with a habit of giving familiar furniture types an offbeat shape, and Roxy follows that habit. The butterfly joint reads as a graphic detail, especially from behind the table. Each version pairs a brushed oak frame with a tonal fabric, so the chair looks like one quiet, dark mass rather than a collection of parts. It sits well with a round pedestal table, a stone-topped dining table, or a long wood plank, and it mixes easily with chairs in other shapes.

Pull Roxy up to a dining table that gets used daily, for weeknight dinners, homework, and long evenings with friends and red wine. The performance cover suits households with kids and pets. A pair also works at a kitchen island or a writing desk, where the angular frame gives the room a strong outline.