Sale Price:
$1,299.00
Original Price:
$1,680.00
Overview
The Medea collection is a family of contemporary-looking dining chairs in leather. Designed with an inviting rounded backrest, the Medea dining chairs in leather have a versatile contemporary aesthetic. The chair frame has been reinforced with elasticated webbing to guarantee extraordinary levels of comfort; the coated-metal legs are slender and tapering, and available in a variety of finishes (including leather). This makes for a more manageable chair that is suitable for any kind of work, whether it be for residential or business contract projects.
Chair with Armrests
The URL slug medea-chrbr decodes as Chair with Backrest and armRests — the armchair version of the Medea dining chair. The Medea collection spans three related pieces:
Medea Chair — the standard side chair, no arms
Medea Armchair — the armchair version reviewed here, with armrests
Medea Stools — the stool variant
The Medea Dining Chair is the most fully featured seating piece in the Medea family — combining the collection’s defining rounded backrest with integrated armrests, providing the most enveloping and comfortable seated experience of the three variants. The armrest height of 24" places the arms at a comfortable elbow-rest height for most adults.
Design Aesthetic: Contemporary with Softened Geometry
The Medea’s defining visual feature is its inviting rounded backrest — a curved, softly formed back that wraps slightly around the sitter rather than presenting a flat rectangular panel. This rounded backrest gives the Medea a gentler, more organic silhouette than most contemporary dining chairs, which tend toward harder geometric forms. The roundness reads as welcoming and approachable while remaining clearly contemporary in its clean, unornamented execution.
The contrast between the rounded upholstered forms (seat, back, armrests) and the slender, tapering metal legs creates the same warm/cool, soft/structured design tension seen throughout Gamma’s collection — organic comfort above, architectural precision below.
Versatile contemporary aesthetic is Gamma’s own positioning statement for the Medea — a chair designed to integrate into a wide range of interior contexts rather than imposing a specific decorative style. This versatility, combined with its contract-ready specification (see below), makes the Medea one of the more broadly applicable chairs in the Gamma catalog.
Legs: Coated Metal, Multiple Finishes Including Leather
The Medea’s legs are coated metal, described as slender and tapering — legs that are narrower at the floor than at the seat rail, giving the chair a refined, light-footed visual profile. The taper adds elegance without sacrificing structural stability.
What distinguishes the Medea’s leg specification is the range of available finishes: available in a variety of finishes, including leather. The option to wrap the legs in leather is an extraordinary and rare detail — one that takes the Medea from a standard contemporary leather dining chair into a fully coordinated leather object where every visible surface, including the legs, can be specified in the same hide. Leather-wrapped legs are typically found only in the highest tier of Italian furniture production, where the continuity of a single material across every element of a piece is a mark of uncompromising craft.
Other metal leg finish options include Gamma’s full palette of coated metal finishes — confirmed by the materials shown on the product page: Brass among the available metal options alongside the standard coated finishes. The brass finish on the slender tapered legs would pair particularly well with the Piuma E537 leather shown in the product photography.
At 19" seat height, the Medea Medea Dining Chair sits at standard dining chair height, well-matched to dining tables in the 28"–30" height range. The 18" seat depth is standard for a dining chair — not as deep as a lounge chair but generous enough for extended dining comfort. The 24" armrest height — 5" above the seat — is a comfortable, proportional arm height that allows relaxed elbow resting without raising the shoulders.
Overview
The Medea collection is a family of contemporary-looking dining chairs in leather. Designed with an inviting rounded backrest, the Medea dining chairs in leather have a versatile contemporary aesthetic. The chair frame has been reinforced with elasticated webbing to guarantee extraordinary levels of comfort; the coated-metal legs are slender and tapering, and available in a variety of finishes (including leather). This makes for a more manageable chair that is suitable for any kind of work, whether it be for residential or business contract projects.
Chair with Armrests
The URL slug medea-chrbr decodes as Chair with Backrest and armRests — the armchair version of the Medea dining chair. The Medea collection spans three related pieces:
Medea Chair — the standard side chair, no arms
Medea Armchair — the armchair version reviewed here, with armrests
Medea Stools — the stool variant
The Medea Dining Chair is the most fully featured seating piece in the Medea family — combining the collection’s defining rounded backrest with integrated armrests, providing the most enveloping and comfortable seated experience of the three variants. The armrest height of 24" places the arms at a comfortable elbow-rest height for most adults.
Design Aesthetic: Contemporary with Softened Geometry
The Medea’s defining visual feature is its inviting rounded backrest — a curved, softly formed back that wraps slightly around the sitter rather than presenting a flat rectangular panel. This rounded backrest gives the Medea a gentler, more organic silhouette than most contemporary dining chairs, which tend toward harder geometric forms. The roundness reads as welcoming and approachable while remaining clearly contemporary in its clean, unornamented execution.
The contrast between the rounded upholstered forms (seat, back, armrests) and the slender, tapering metal legs creates the same warm/cool, soft/structured design tension seen throughout Gamma’s collection — organic comfort above, architectural precision below.
Versatile contemporary aesthetic is Gamma’s own positioning statement for the Medea — a chair designed to integrate into a wide range of interior contexts rather than imposing a specific decorative style. This versatility, combined with its contract-ready specification (see below), makes the Medea one of the more broadly applicable chairs in the Gamma catalog.
Legs: Coated Metal, Multiple Finishes Including Leather
The Medea’s legs are coated metal, described as slender and tapering — legs that are narrower at the floor than at the seat rail, giving the chair a refined, light-footed visual profile. The taper adds elegance without sacrificing structural stability.
What distinguishes the Medea’s leg specification is the range of available finishes: available in a variety of finishes, including leather. The option to wrap the legs in leather is an extraordinary and rare detail — one that takes the Medea from a standard contemporary leather dining chair into a fully coordinated leather object where every visible surface, including the legs, can be specified in the same hide. Leather-wrapped legs are typically found only in the highest tier of Italian furniture production, where the continuity of a single material across every element of a piece is a mark of uncompromising craft.
Other metal leg finish options include Gamma’s full palette of coated metal finishes — confirmed by the materials shown on the product page: Brass among the available metal options alongside the standard coated finishes. The brass finish on the slender tapered legs would pair particularly well with the Piuma E537 leather shown in the product photography.
At 19" seat height, the Medea Medea Dining Chair sits at standard dining chair height, well-matched to dining tables in the 28"–30" height range. The 18" seat depth is standard for a dining chair — not as deep as a lounge chair but generous enough for extended dining comfort. The 24" armrest height — 5" above the seat — is a comfortable, proportional arm height that allows relaxed elbow resting without raising the shoulders.
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