The best dining chairs on the market offer both comfort and style, elevating your entire space and earning praise from every guest. Here are our top picks for 2022.

The best dining chair is the Article Svelti Chair, according to our décor writer, who also reviewed molded-plastic and bentwood styles.

Best mid-century-style dining chair – Atkin and Thyme Layla dining chair, deep green velvet: £249, Atkinandthyme.co.uk; Best for kids – Dunelm Lara junior dining chair: £90.30, Dunelm.com; 1.

I think you can splurge on a prominent head-of-the-table chair, and then collect comfortable, more affordable dining chairs with time; as Stacey London once taught us all on What Not to Wear ...