Lucy 01 Chair: crushed black velvet and a 103cm back

The Lucy 01 is one of the taller dining chairs here, listed at 67 x 50 x 103cm, with a tall back, scroll detailing at the crown, a lion knocker and chrome legs. The description names two velvets: crushed black and dark grey. Both and the full gallery are on the Lucy 01 Chair (Lion Knocker/Chrome Legs) page.

67 x 50 x 103cm, and the room around it

The 103cm is the overall height to the crown. The first two figures are the footprint and the listing does not label them, so ask us which is the seat width and which is front to back before you commit to a set in a narrow room.

At 67cm a chair this is one of the wider listings in the range, so the seating sums are worth doing before you buy six. Two chairs need 134cm of table edge, three need just over 200cm, and a gap between each adds to both. A 150cm table takes two a side. Three a side wants a table edge of about 210cm. Measure the usable edge rather than the overall length, because a corner leg can swallow a place.

Then look behind the chairs. A 103cm back will cross a low window sill, stand above a radiator and sit in front of anything hung on the wall behind the table. Measure floor to sill and floor to the underside of any shelf, and compare both with 103cm before ordering. On the other hand, in a dining room with nothing behind the table, that height is the whole point: a row of tall backs gives the room a line it otherwise lacks.

Crushed black or dark grey

Crushed velvet is not a colour so much as a surface. The crushing breaks up the pile so the fabric catches light in patches rather than evenly, which is why a crushed black never reads as flat black in a room. Dark grey is the quieter of the two and the easier one to sit alongside an existing grey sofa or floor.

The listing gives no composition, no rub figure and no cleaning code for either, so ask us what the supplier states if the chairs are for a table in daily use. The back is described as stitched to reinforce the structure, which is a statement about the construction and not about how it will wear.

The same size with gold legs

If the shape suits but chrome does not, the G-Lucy Chair (Ring Knocker/Gold Legs) is listed at the same 67 x 50 x 103cm on gold legs, with a ring knocker instead of the lion, and it adds cream to the finish list. Choose the metal to match whatever hard metal is already in the room: chrome for stainless and glass, gold for brass and oak.

If 103cm is more back than your room wants, the Lewis 01 Plush Chair is listed at 94cm on chrome legs with a Chesterfield back, and the Jessica Chair at 55 x 55 x 95cm is one of the narrower chrome-legged listings here, which is the one to look at if you need an extra place at the table. For a polyurethane face instead of velvet, the London PU Chair has a scroll-top back at 100cm.

What the listing does not say

• Seat height. Not given, and it decides whether the chair clears your table apron.
• Velvet composition and cleaning. Not given.
• Frame, filling and weight limit. Not stated.
• Assembly. The listing does not say whether the chrome legs arrive fitted.

This is a chair we supply rather than one from our own range, so the specification sits with the supplier. Ask us and we will check it for you.

Delivery is free within 50 miles of our Glasgow store and £50 beyond. Measure your sill height and your table edge, then see both finishes on the Lucy 01 Chair page, or compare the rest of the range in Dining Chairs.