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Coach House is a chair range: a carver and a matching single chair, both with a carved top panel back.
The panel back is a solid back rather than an open one, with the carving worked into the top panel. It gives the chair weight and presence, and it does something practical as well. A solid back reads as a piece of furniture from behind, which matters when chairs are pushed in against a wall or seen from the doorway of an open-plan room.
The carver is the chair with arms, usually set at the head and foot of the table. The single chair is the same design without them.
What the range covers
| Piece | Notes |
|---|---|
| Coach House carver chair | With arms, carved top panel back |
| Coach House single chair | Without arms, carved top panel back |
The name covers those two chairs and nothing else: there is no Coach House stool, bench or settle. Both chairs share the same seat dimensions, so a carver and a single sit the same way around the table. If you want a bench or a settle along one side, we will make one to match them.
Related type pages: carver chairs, chairs, and settles and benches if you want a bench along one side of the table.
For tables to pair them with, most clients look at refectory tables, farmhouse tables or the Pendleton range.
Timbers
Coach House is priced in the four standard timbers: oak, cherry, mahogany and walnut.
Chairs are handled constantly, so the timber is felt as much as seen. Oak is the most robust and the usual choice for a country table. Cherry is finer in the hand and darkens over the years. Mahogany is the most formal of the four, and walnut carries the strongest figure.
More on our timbers. Order free samples so you can match the chairs to a table you already own.
Make it yours
- Numbers. Any combination of carvers and singles. Two carvers and six singles is common, though there is no rule.
- Seat height and seat width, set against the table you will use them with rather than to a standard.
- The carving. The top panel carving can be taken as standard, simplified, or replaced with a detail of your own, including a crest or a monogram.
- Upholstery. Drop-in seats, wrap-around drop-in seats or fully upholstered, in your own material or in leather supplied by us. See upholstery options.
- Finish. Polished, painted, limed, sand-blasted, rub-through paint or natural, and colour matched to a sample.
If you have inherited a set and need more chairs to match, that is work we do often. We can match furniture that is 100 years old to new reproduction purchases made the year before. See matching antique furniture, or read how commissioning works.
Questions about Coach House
What is a carver chair?
A carver is the dining chair with arms, traditionally placed at the head and foot of the table for whoever carves. A single chair is the same design without arms. Coach House is made in both.
Can I order chairs to match a table I already have?
Yes. Send us photographs and, where possible, a sample of the finish. Colour matching is priced on application because of the extra polishing time, and it is one of the things we are best at.
How long do chairs take?
Standard lead time is typically ten to twelve weeks, whatever the quantity within reason. A set with non-standard carving or upholstery usually adds around four weeks.
Can I have the seats upholstered in my own fabric?
Yes. We work with customer’s own material as a matter of routine, or we can supply leather. Send the fabric to the workshop once the frames are underway and we will fit it.
