G Plan Dining Room Chairs

All About G Plan Dining Room Chairs

Established in the mid-20th century, G Plan remains a household name renowned for its sleek modern furniture. The brand makes a variety of dining room chairs you can mix and match with one another or with your existing furniture. Here are a few key things to know about what's on offer.

Styles of G Plan dining room chairs

G Plan is a modern brand specialising in modern and contemporary furniture. The styles of dining room chairs it produces fall into either of these categories and subcategories. Take a closer look:

• Modern: sleek, unfussy, often made with organic materials
• Mid-century modern: a mid-20th-century style characterized by crisp, symmetrical silhouettes, with splayed, peg-shaped, or hairpin legs
• Contemporary: a modern style mixing organic and man-made materials
• Danish/Scandinavian: mid-century modern variations, minimalist, neutral in colour, hygge
• Retro/vintage: from a popular, earlier collection, throwback-inspired, resembling classic styles, reproductions of classic collections

Can you use G Plan dining chairs in other rooms?

Yes, you can. A high seat back and the absence of arms are the main structural characteristics that differentiate dining room chairs from, say, accent chairs. Feel free to use G Plan dining room chairs as extra seating or contrasting style elements in your living room, home office, and foyer. You can personalize them with your own seat cushions, decorative pillows, and throws.

Mixing new, old, and different dining room furniture

Matching is subjective and fun when it comes to your decor. Juxtaposing your new finds and your existing furniture is both possible and exciting. Here are a few tips on blending your vintage, new, and old furniture.

• Scale: Group pieces of similar size with one another, whether similar in height, width, or overall dimensions.
• Accent: Reserve contrasting or standalone pieces for accents.
• Distribution: Distribute secondary and tertiary accents evenly throughout the room.
• Harmony: Make sure your accent pieces harmonize with your colour scheme's dominant shades, or reiterate pops of secondary and tertiary colours

What are G Plan afrormosia dining room chairs?

These are dining room chairs made with Pericopsis elata, an African wood. It has a similar colour and grain to teak, so some people even call it African teak. Teak is a native tropical tree first popularized through shipbuilding when the Dutch colonized Indonesia.

Owing to its beauty, hardness, and resistance to elements, teak remains the preferred shipbuilding material and much desired among crafters of classic wood furniture. To compensate for lapses in supply and demand, makers like G Plan turn to afrormosia as a high-quality teak alternative.

Optimal space requirements for G Plan dining room chairs

When using G Plan dining room chairs at the table, there are some space considerations to remember. Each place setting should have at least 50 centimetres to 60 centimetres, but 76 centimetres per place setting is ideal. See the manufacturer site for details. No matter the shape and size of your dining room table, try to maintain at least 91 centimetres of clearance between all sides of the dining room table and the nearest walls or doors. This allows diners to slide their chairs into and out of their place setting easily. It also allows diners and hosts to circulate along the table's perimeter when greeting, chatting, or serving.

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