NUANS

NUANS makes chairs for rooms that get used hard. The line was drawn for hospitality, which is a polite way of saying it has to survive a restaurant, and that standard follows it into a house without anyone having to think about it.

Ojai, Paloma, Rhone, Lorenzo and Camarosa are the backbone, each a dining chair with its counter and bar stool siblings, in wood and metal with woven or upholstered seats. Yugen, Metropolitan and Quinta go lower and softer for lounge and lobby work. There are a few tables and a desk, but this is a seating catalogue and makes no pretence otherwise.

The appeal is the arithmetic: contract-grade construction at a price that does not read as contract-grade.