DESCRIPTION

The Nova Dining Chair by Wood Haven is a solid wood dining chair in natural light oak that resolves its design through the specific form of its backrest, a wide, paddle-shaped solid wood panel that tapers from a broad upper width down to a narrower waist where it meets the seat rail, the panel's upper face lightly upholstered in a dark contrast fabric insert that provides a soft contact surface for the upper back without concealing the wood panel's overall form or the natural grain visible on its outer edges and rear face. The paddle backrest sits between two solid wood uprights that continue from the seat rail to the backrest's upper width, the natural oak grain running continuously from the uprights into the backrest panel and making the full backrest assembly read as a single resolved timber element rather than a panel attached to a separate frame. The dark fabric insert at the upper backrest face, a recessed upholstered section set into the timber panel rather than applied on top of it, provides the seated body's upper back contact surface without the bulk of a separately cushioned backrest, keeping the chair's overall profile slim and its side silhouette as clean as a fully timber chair while delivering the contact comfort that a hard wood surface alone cannot. The Nova is for the dining room that wants a natural oak dining chair with the honest, resolved material character of Scandinavian solid wood furniture, a chair whose timber construction is its design, and whose single fabric insert is as much a material decision as an ergonomic one.