Dining chairs get used harder than any other seat in the house. The Ruston answers with a clean, low-profile silhouette wrapped in buff-toned upholstery that shrugs off the spills and sticky fingers a fabric seat would hold onto, and a look that stays modern without shouting.

Jofran covers it in vegan leather, a smooth faux leather that wipes clean with a damp cloth. The warm buff color reads soft rather than stark, so it works with light oak, walnut or painted tables, and it matches the channel-tufted Ruston banquette pieces if you want to build a nook. Order a pair for a breakfast table, or six around the matching Ruston trestle table in a full dining room where a lighter chair keeps the trestle base from dominating. Chairs ship two to a carton.