A schoolhouse-lineage side chair with a stained hardwood ply seat and back mounted to a tubular steel frame in burnished gunmetal finish. Exposed nickel-finish fasteners join the wood to the frame — visible, intentional, sized to read. The finish vocabulary leans vintage-industrial rather than clean modern: warm wood, aged metal, no powder coat. The seat shell is contoured for daily sitting; the steel frame is welded at structural points and rate…