dining chairs and armchairs
Poliform Leopold chair
Leopold is Jean-Marie Massaud's answer to a common complaint: dining chairs are made to be left after an hour. The chair arrived in 2024 as an enveloping cushion held in a minimal wooden structure, and the armchair followed in 2025 with the same idea and more volume.
- Designer
- Jean-Marie Massaud
- In the catalog
- 2024 to 2025
- Pieces
- 2
- Price
- on request
A dining chair built like an armchair
The cushion wraps rather than sits flat, so the chair holds you at the sides as well as underneath. That is normal in a lounge chair and rare at a table, where the convention is a shell and a thin pad. Massaud kept the wooden structure thin around it, which stops the chair from looking like a small armchair pushed up to the table.
It changes how a dining room is used. A table with Leopold chairs keeps people at it after the plates are cleared, which is either exactly what you want or a reason to choose something crisper. For a house that entertains, it is the argument for the family.
The armchair from 2025 takes the same wrapped cushion into a larger frame. Ordered together, the chair at the table and the armchair in the corner of the same room read as one thought; ordered separately, either stands alone.
Wood is the only structural material here, and the finish is the decision that moves the price. Six chairs in a dark stain and six in a pale one are the same money and a different room, and we quote whichever two you are choosing between.
The cushion wraps at the sides, which is why nobody leaves the table.
- Fabric
- Leather
- Wood
What is in the Leopold family
| Piece | Type | Made of | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poliform Leopold chair | Chairs | Solid wood, fabric or leather cushion | In the catalog since 2024 |
| Poliform Leopold armchair | Armchairs | Solid wood, fabric or leather cushion | Larger volume, since 2025 |
Jean-Marie Massaud
Massaud reimagined dining as something you stay at, then built the chair backwards from that.
- LeopoldArmchairs · 2025
- LeopoldChairs · 2024
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