I've been struggling with online shopping for dining chairs for weeks and have returned two purchases already, one for quality, the other for looks. I really need to see/try before I buy, but many stores have closed down or are online-only. We're in Greater London (Richmond/Kingston area) and have a car so in theory we should have loads of choice. Show-rooms with dining chairs that I know of are:
John Lewis
DFS (incorporating Dwell)
Furniture Village
West Elm
Ikea
... but so far I can't find any chairs that I like. Possibly what I'm looking for (pale grey chairs with stainless steel legs) isn't fashionable right now - most chairs seem to have either wooden or ugly black/coloured metal legs which look terrible under my glass and chrome table. Or maybe stock is depleted due to Covid.