Solid wood chairs

Solid wood chairs in Israel: with armrests, upholstered seats and stools

A wooden chair is bought once for many years. The only thing that kills it is not wear but loose joints that nobody tightened in time.

Solid wood, veneer and board

In a chair what matters is not so much the seat surface as the frame. Solid wood means whole timber through the full thickness of the part: it can be sanded, refinished and re-glued, and a chip on a leg does not expose a different material underneath. Veneer is a thin layer of real wood over a base; it gives the same grain more cheaply, but a broken edge cannot be restored. Bare board without a wood facing is rare in chairs, because it does not carry load in thin sections.

Wooden Chairs · 58 Fabric chairs Bar Stools

58 models in this section

What the section holds

Type	What is particular about it
With a hard seat	All wood. Simpler to look after and easy to wash down, but firmer to sit on.
With an upholstered seat	A wooden frame with a padded seat. Such models also appear in Fabric chairs.
With armrests	Placed at the head of the table or used as a working chair. Check that a chair like this slides under the tabletop.
Stools	No backrest, they tuck fully under the table and take up no room.

Why chairs start to creak

Creaking is not a defect, it is physics. Wood takes on and gives off moisture, glued and bolted joints develop play over time, and the chair starts to flex under weight. The fix takes five minutes: once a year turn the chair over and tighten every bolt under the seat. Leave it for three years and the tenons work loose, and then it needs glue rather than a screwdriver. In a flat with air conditioning that dries the air, tighten more often.

Lacquer fears heat, not water. A cup set straight onto the wooden seat of a stool leaves a whitish ring that only comes out by sanding back. With a damp cloth, lacquer lives quite happily.