Sale Price:
$469.00
Original Price:
$629.00
Overview
Fully upholstered one-piece seat and back cushion with built-in lumbar support covered in full top grain leather and finished off with tailored legs in solid oak with a warm walnut stain.
What Makes the Aarhus Unique: The One-Piece Seat-and-Back Cushion with Built-In Lumbar
The Aarhus's most functionally distinctive feature is its fully upholstered one-piece seat and back cushion — a single, continuous upholstered form that integrates seat and backrest into an unbroken cushion unit. This is a meaningfully different construction from chairs that use separate seat cushions and back panels. The one-piece construction creates a cohesive, seamless upholstered surface with no gap, joint, or visual break between seat and back — the leather flows continuously from the front of the seat up over the backrest, creating a clean, sculptural silhouette.
Integrated into this one-piece cushion is a built-in lumbar support — a structural detail within the cushion itself that provides targeted support at the lower back. This distinguishes the Aarhus from most dining chairs in the contemporary market, where lumbar support is either absent (a flat back panel with no contouring) or an afterthought. An inward curve on the lower back ensures relaxation — the backrest curves inward at lumbar height before curving back outward at the upper back, creating a gentle ergonomic S-curve profile that cradles the natural shape of the spine.
Design Aesthetic: Scandinavian Influence, European Refinement
The name Aarhus is a direct reference to Aarhus, Denmark — the second-largest city in Denmark and a center of Scandinavian design culture. The chair's design vocabulary confirms this: clean lines, solid oak legs, warm natural material palette, and an emphasis on ergonomic comfort — all hallmarks of Scandinavian furniture design philosophy. The tailored legs in solid oak with walnut stain bridge the Scandinavian (oak, natural materials) and mid-century modern (walnut, tailored proportions) aesthetic traditions.
The Aarhus is listed in two leg-finish configurations:
1637XL Aarhus — Walnut (your linked page): solid oak legs with warm walnut stain
1637XL Aarhus — Espresso: solid oak legs with espresso stain (darker, cooler brown)
This two-leg-finish offering is a simple but meaningful configurability — walnut-stain legs read as warm and mid-century modern; espresso legs read as cooler, more contemporary, and slightly more formal.
Dimensions
The Aarhus dining chair is 19" wide × 24.5" deep × 36" high.
At 36" tall, the Aarhus has a notably generous overall height — taller than most standard dining chairs (typically 33"–35"), with a back that rises well above the seat for substantial lumbar and upper-back coverage. At 19" wide, it has a moderate, compact seat width — practical for standard dining table spacing — and at 24.5" deep, it provides a generous seat depth suited to extended dining comfort.
Overview
Fully upholstered one-piece seat and back cushion with built-in lumbar support covered in full top grain leather and finished off with tailored legs in solid oak with a warm walnut stain.
What Makes the Aarhus Unique: The One-Piece Seat-and-Back Cushion with Built-In Lumbar
The Aarhus's most functionally distinctive feature is its fully upholstered one-piece seat and back cushion — a single, continuous upholstered form that integrates seat and backrest into an unbroken cushion unit. This is a meaningfully different construction from chairs that use separate seat cushions and back panels. The one-piece construction creates a cohesive, seamless upholstered surface with no gap, joint, or visual break between seat and back — the leather flows continuously from the front of the seat up over the backrest, creating a clean, sculptural silhouette.
Integrated into this one-piece cushion is a built-in lumbar support — a structural detail within the cushion itself that provides targeted support at the lower back. This distinguishes the Aarhus from most dining chairs in the contemporary market, where lumbar support is either absent (a flat back panel with no contouring) or an afterthought. An inward curve on the lower back ensures relaxation — the backrest curves inward at lumbar height before curving back outward at the upper back, creating a gentle ergonomic S-curve profile that cradles the natural shape of the spine.
Design Aesthetic: Scandinavian Influence, European Refinement
The name Aarhus is a direct reference to Aarhus, Denmark — the second-largest city in Denmark and a center of Scandinavian design culture. The chair's design vocabulary confirms this: clean lines, solid oak legs, warm natural material palette, and an emphasis on ergonomic comfort — all hallmarks of Scandinavian furniture design philosophy. The tailored legs in solid oak with walnut stain bridge the Scandinavian (oak, natural materials) and mid-century modern (walnut, tailored proportions) aesthetic traditions.
The Aarhus is listed in two leg-finish configurations:
1637XL Aarhus — Walnut (your linked page): solid oak legs with warm walnut stain
1637XL Aarhus — Espresso: solid oak legs with espresso stain (darker, cooler brown)
This two-leg-finish offering is a simple but meaningful configurability — walnut-stain legs read as warm and mid-century modern; espresso legs read as cooler, more contemporary, and slightly more formal.
Dimensions
The Aarhus dining chair is 19" wide × 24.5" deep × 36" high.
At 36" tall, the Aarhus has a notably generous overall height — taller than most standard dining chairs (typically 33"–35"), with a back that rises well above the seat for substantial lumbar and upper-back coverage. At 19" wide, it has a moderate, compact seat width — practical for standard dining table spacing — and at 24.5" deep, it provides a generous seat depth suited to extended dining comfort.
Image 1 of 4
Image 2 of 4
Image 3 of 4
Image 4 of 4
