Aluminum restaurant chairs

Aluminum describes the frame, not where the chair may stand. This group of 52 leans indoor: 11 chairs are listed for indoor use, seven for the patio. Read that usage line first. Then look at the seat, because 45 of these chairs come with upholstery options.

Read the usage line before the frame

Most of these chairs belong in dining rooms. Eleven are listed for indoor use and seven are listed for patio use; for the rest, the product page is where the usage note lives. Out on the terrace, a chair needs a patio listing to earn its spot. Put an indoor chair with an upholstered seat on the sidewalk and it will fade, swell or rust, with no warranty cover for that.

If your question is mainly about the terrace, jump to aluminum and steel patio chairs, where every piece is listed for patio use, or to the wider range of patio chairs.

Frames that look like wood

Thirty-three frames are aluminum with a wood look, 12 are plain aluminum, three are metal with a wood look, and one is bamboo-look aluminum. The frame is metal either way, so the listing, not the picture, tells you what you are buying.

Seats are vinyl on 45 chairs and fabric on 42, with a few plastic teak and faux rattan seats among them. Forty-three have an upholstered back. Arms appear on 27, stackable chairs on nine, and a padded back on three.

Footprint is easy to check on the stackers. A stackable aluminum dining chair measures 18 3/4 inches wide, 23 inches deep and 34 3/4 inches tall. An aluminum dining chair in the same group lists 26 inches wide, 28 deep and 40 tall. Same material, very different footprint, so measure the row before you trust the picture.

Seat height, price and special upholstery

Seat heights run from 17 3/4 inches to 19 1/4 inches. The biggest group, 18 chairs, sits at 18 1/2 inches. Between the seat and the tabletop, 10 to 12 inches keeps knees happy.

Single chairs range from about $104 to $340, which is a wide spread, so sort by frame and seat before you sort by price. Forty-five chairs have upholstery options. Upholstery beyond the listed options is custom work: slower, and locked in once confirmed, with no cancelling or returning. Ask for swatches on the samples page before you commit.

When you want more choices in metal, metal chairs is the broader shelf. If the chairs will stack in a storeroom, check stacking chairs too.