OK, guess I'll answer my own question, lol. Saw this chair 'in person' today and wasn't very impressed (stiff, cardboardy leather, very slight recline), so I'm no longer interested in it. Still looking for a well-made recliner that reclines way back, doesn't take an enormous amount of room, leather seat, not over-stuffed.

Well, it seems like I am in the minority, but I wouldnt put a cushion on the back. Why cover up the great design? I should say that I don't use cushions on the back of my wrought iron chairs and I find them very comfortable (I come pre-padded though haha). When I posted pictures of them here though, many comments were about adding cushions :) Unless the chairs are a very odd dimension, you shouldnt have a problem finding seat cushions in a regular old store-- I havent shopped for them this season, but I have seen cute ones at places like kmart, target etc over the years. You will also find sales at places like Plow and Hearth. If you want something a little nicer (and more expensive!) Ashcombes and Country Market (now called Stauffer's of Kissel Hill) on 11 & 15 (towards Dillsburg) both have cushion selections. If you havent been to them, I love both stores, but I would never buy cushions from them. You might try Boscovs too-- not sure what they carry but they are always running special coupon deals. One more thought-- if you really think you need some cushion on the back, they make great outdoor throw pillows these days. I would go that direction. and $40 is a great price for wrought iron.. and I would totally go with purple as one of the posters suggested! ;)

In Postwar houses with the same kind of evil, rough, sanded-plaster walls that we had when I was five, a chair rail may protect chairs' finish or upholstery from getting shredded, but generally, a chair rail's protection is intended to work the other way around: not to protect the chairs, but to keep the paint unmarked & the plaster un-gouged from the chairs being knocked into or dragged along the walls. I'm just sayin'. But chair rails protect the walls from more than chairs. There are also kids, and while plain walls with smooth finishes were all the style thing in 1965, they're also a lot harder to maintain in pristine condition than walls broken up into separate sections with moldings, which moldings allow you to freshen the walls without too much effort. In our family we had four boys & assorted pets, and in no house we ever lived did the place look as dingy & dodgy as our 196Os ranch with its long, narrow corridors of mint green & aqua & pink. Up above, the brand-new walls were immaculate, but from doorknob height on down, it was always a mess. Worse, because there was no convenient cut-off place--as there would have been with a chair rail--you couldn't just touch up the wall where a say, the heel of cowboy boot had gouged the plaster during a corridor ambush of the posse by a gang of bad guys, or where an errant Big Wheel had gone out of control & left a dirty scrape all the way down the hall. Add to those occasional incidents the continual finger-dragging that little kids seem to do by nature, and the the general grimy area that you get when you combine narrow halls & large dogs, and you can see the logic of having a molding a few feet above the floor. But our house was crisp & Modern and it didn't have what were considered superfluous, old-fashioned moldings, so it was either paint the whole wall, end-to-end, floor-to-ceiling, or do nothing & just leave the marks & smears & chipped plaster. My mother, being an early proponent of Energy Conservation, chose the latter, with the result that that place always looked like hell. When we moved into a big old Craftsman Style house, with a dark oak dado that stood chest high in the hall & the corridors, my mom no longer had to worry about telltale dirt & scuff marks on the walls. Not, of course, that she ever did. Anyway, stylistically speaking, chair rails may be out of place in a Modern house, but for simple practicality, they're hard to beat.

So many gorgeous tables everyone posted. I love the chair, I love the color and the wall. What you really need is to add a few other accessories throughout the room to repeat that chartreuse color (ie. artwork, vase, accent pieces, flowers, etc) Also - I get the idea of not wanting to take away from this chair by adding a dynamic looking table. Maybe too many things going on..... I'm not sure what your budget for a table is, but these are some that would work : In Brass: https://www.ethanallen.com/en_US/shop-furniture-living-room-side-and-accent-tables-accent-tables/twist-table/twisttable.html?dwvar_twisttable_color=DWpolishednickel Or clear!::: https://www.ethanallen.com/en_US/shop-furniture-living-room-side-and-accent-tables-accent-tables/ballan-acrylic-accent-table/421807.html Good luck! Great find on the chair :)