Southwest Chairs
Southwest chairs are bold and gorgeous in living rooms and are a great way to emphasize the indigenous heritage. Texture and pattern are important in this style, making a patterned area rug and textured tapestry a good choice with these chairs. Use these southwestern-style chairs in dining rooms or living rooms as accent pieces to add style or create a cozy aura.
Cow Print Southwest Accent Chair
$98.99 $119.99
Cow Print Southwest Accent Chair
Loon Peak®
$98.99 $119.99
Perfect For: A stand-alone focal point
What We Like: Soft fabric
Not So Good For: People with short legs
Fun, unusual, and striking, this low-profile, cow print accent chair is a guaranteed showstopper. It is built on rubberwood tapered legs and is covered in a gorgeous brown and white polyester fabric with a suede-like texture. Comfort-wise, the seat has a deep cushion while the backrest is gently curved, making it a favorite for taller users.
Designer Advice:
If you’re looking for an affordable alternative, this one is a good choice. Although it draws its inspiration from contemporary designs, it still gives a nod to Southwestern style with its cow pattern. This accent chair is pretty attention-grabbing on its own, so we recommend setting it in a corner so that it doesn’t overwhelm the rest of the room.
What Users Say:
I love it. Was very easy to put together. Looks amazing in my space. Very solid. Very comfortable. Great value for money spent.
Reclining Southwest Style Accent Chair
Reclining Southwest Style Accent Chair
Unique and stylish, this southwest living room chair offers balance with its light cream fabric and warm leather. The seat is made of a highly resilient material that keeps its shape and form and is long-lasting.
Designer Advice:
Southwest chairs that recline are good choices for people spending a lot of time in their living room reading, watching tv, or napping. They are unique, though have a higher price tag making them a less than ideal choice if you’re on a tight budget.
Southwest Chairs for Dining Rooms
Southwest Chairs for Dining Rooms
This set of two southwestern chairs for dining rooms gives you the choice between a chocolate, hickory, saddle, black, and faux leather seat. The frame is solid oak, and the full backrest features a colorful pattern.
Monochrome Accent Southwest Chair
Monochrome Accent Southwest Chair
Loon Peak®
This southwestern-style chair is wrapped with a cotton fabric that is resistant to stains and can be removed if need be. Lightweight in design, it has a tight back and square arms. It's made of acacia wood that doesn’t scratch easily.
Designer Advice:
If you want one of the boldest southwest chairs, a sharp-lined and two-toned pattern is exactly what you need. Monochromatic hues cut through other patterns, so it’s best to use this chair with soft textures without a pattern in the same room. Pair it with warm hues, like a warm brown sofa, to prevent the room from looking washed out.
Southwest Style Chair With Unique Backrest
Southwest Style Chair With Unique Backrest
This southwestern chair has a straight-leg design and a bright orange patterned square seat. It has a tenon construction, meaning it doesn’t have nails or screws and has a smooth sheen finish.
Rocking Chair With Southwest Style
Rocking Chair With Southwest Style
This southwestern chair has customizable leather seats, flat wood armrests, and rocks back and forth. It is made from solid barnwood with distressed oak, and the backrest has an open slit and a red diamond pattern.
Designer Advice:
Southwestern chairs that rock are soothing and great for people who are inclined to always be moving. Some are built to handle outdoor patios, while others are solely for use inside. This chair’s dark stain and pattern look amazing in light warm living rooms and are paired with yellow, orange, and turquoise colors and patterns.
Southwestern Accent Chair With Curly Legs
Southwestern Accent Chair With Curly Legs
This fine southwest-style chair is tribal in nature and boasts a bright orange, white, and tan back cushion. It has an alder wood frame and metal studs around the square and top-grade leather seat.
Southwestern Chair with Thick Cushioning
Southwestern Chair with Thick Cushioning
Perfect For: Rustic western inspired homes
What We Like: Horse-themed
What We Don’t Like: Expensive
Not So Good For: Households with pets
Set on a solid oak frame, this club chair with a southwestern twist is not only wide and spacious, but also generously cushioned with high-density foam for the utmost comfort. Charming details like the rolled arms, decorative nailhead trim, and horse printed-tapestry give it a traditional wild west look.
Designer Advice:
Despite its rather costly price, we like that this armchair is designed with daily use in mind, delivering comfort, sturdiness, and timeless appeal in one. This makes it a perfect addition to a reading nook, by the fireplace, or as part of a seating ensemble. While the seat cushion is removable, the covers aren’t and should be spot clean only. The good news is that its microfiber upholstery is stain-resistant (but unfortunately not pet-friendly).
What Users Say:
I just love this chair! Most accent chairs are on the smaller side, but this gorgeous chair fits right in with our oversized sofa and loveseat. So beautiful and comfy.
Southwest Living Room Chair With Tapered Legs
Southwest Living Room Chair With Tapered Legs
This southwestern chair without arms sits low to the ground and is upholstered with a soft jute and light pattern. The seat is a plush cotton fill, and the back fabric is joined to the seat by nailhead trim.
Designer Advice:
Soft and cushioned southwest-style chairs like this create a more relaxed vibe versus a stylish talking piece. Because the pattern has softer lines, it pairs easily with stronger patterns and more textures. If your living room lacks patterns, you can use pillows with bold patterns unless you want the chair to disappear into the room.
Genuine Leather Southwest Chair
Genuine Leather Southwest Chair
Perfect For: Spanish colonial and ranch-style decorating schemes
What We Like: Contrasting design
With a distinctive style and superior quality, this southwestern chair boasts simple lines, square armrests, a deep seat, and tall wooden tapered legs. What’s more, it is made with top grain leather, known for being naturally resistant to spills, stains, and cracking with the addition of being extremely durable. As the perfect finishing touch, the sides and back are accented with red chenille fabric, showcasing vibrant Navajo patterns for dynamic visual interest.
Designer Advice:
This armchair’s squarish silhouette works best in open spaces—perhaps accompanied by a round wooden side table and floor plant. Add a beige knitted throw on top and a subtle southwestern rug (such as in ivory) underneath to make it all the more welcoming. The key is to keep its surroundings fairly neutral, so as to not take away from the beauty of the chair.
Butterfly style Southwestern Accent Chair
Butterfly style Southwestern Accent Chair
Foundry Select
Southwest with a modern touch, this southwest-style chair has a loose back made of canvas and thin black legs. The seat cushion comes off for easy cleaning, and the wide stitching adds a rustic charm.
Designer Advice:
A butterfly southwest chair stands out in white and light rooms, and its thin legs pair well with low-profile leather loveseats. Because it’s a warm brown leather tone, most patterns blend nicely. To keep the southwest flair from becoming too lodge and rustic, add soft textures, like laying a soft blanket over the side.
Southwestern Chair With Cowhide Seat
Southwestern Chair With Cowhide Seat
Handmade and a rare find, this southwestern accent chair combines wool, wood, leather, and cowhide for a range of textures. The backrest flaunts yellows and sky-blue hues and reddish browns, and slender and tapered red-brown legs.
Barrel style Southwest Chairs With Table
Barrel style Southwest Chairs With Table
These southwestern-style chairs come with a matching table and are wrapped in tanned pig leather. They have an authentic Mexican charm with their rosewood and sweetwood strips and x stitching along the edge of the dark brown barrel seat.
Buying Guide
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The Southwestern style is heavily influenced by the Native American and pioneer cultures of the American Southwest. This includes those of New Mexico and Arizona in the 1700s and 1800s. Among is design features are rough textures such as those found in woven fabrics and geometric patterns.
The colors in a Southwestern chair and other furniture in this style include:
- Bright red
- Purple
- Cactus green
- Mahogany brown
- Rust
- Sand
- Yellow
- Turquoise
Chairs in this style work well in rooms decorated in the rustic, country or Western style. A casual room that includes a mixture of styles could also accommodate the Southwestern style.
If you have a comfortable room that needs to be perked up, put a Southwestern chair in it. Consider a chair upholstered in woven fabric of cream, purple, orange and black on a walnut frame with cabriole legs. You will look stylish as you rest in this armchair.
Another armchair in light-colored fabric sits on a frame of dark wood. On the back is a stylized depiction of a Native American on a horse. Triangles and nailhead trim accent this item.
If you like to rest your feet, you will not be left out because you can get a Southwestern chair with matching ottoman. Think about getting one with a deep seat, back and ottoman top in red. Also adding to the interest in the piece are its rhombus shapes. The arms, as well as the trim of the chair and skirt of the ottoman, are cafe-au-lait colored.
Are you a rocker literally? Try a rocking chair with a fabric back that pictures a stagecoach being drawn by horses. In light, oak-colored wood, this chair has vertical side rails and nailhead trim. A second rocking chair features a pattern of vertical stripes on a frame of medium-colored wood.
- As you work in your office, do you want to show off your love of Southwestern culture? Then think about getting a white office chair with geometric patterns. The frame of this chair, which is on five wheels for ease in moving it, combines wood with metal.
- If you want to show your faith as a Christian in your decor, choose an armchair in distressed pale blue with cross cutouts on the back. One cross is red and the other is orange.
- For a simple side chair, there is one is turquoise-colored distressed wood with a seat covered in red fabric with a geometric pattern. The back has twisted posts in turquoise and red and a graduated top.
A Southwestern chair combines the cultural influences that contributed to the American melting pot. The boldness of its colors and patterns can kickstart the style of any room it is put in.
