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Dining Chair


There seems to be two diametrically opposed views on the place where you sit to eat.  One side thinks eating is merely refueling, and the object is to eat up and get out.  This may explain the Spartan accommodations on a Navy mess decks.  The other side thinks that eating, sometimes called 'dining,' is an activity be enjoyed at leisure and is a treat for the senses. 

Without choosing sides in this profound theological debate, Desert Craftsmen was commissioned to make a set of dining chairs that had one characteristic above all:  They were to avoid the dreaded 'Dead End' syndrome that some seats create after about twenty minutes of sitting.  The result was a set of the chairs (shown above and below) upon which it's possible to sit for extended periods and dine or just enjoy the company of those dining with you.




And even if you're not sitting on them you can take pleasure in them.  They are, modestly put, simply beautiful.