The search for the perfect dining chair is often crunched into some kind of horrible, stressful deadline.  Last winter, one of my best friends was known to cry, “I have 16 people coming for Thanksgiving dinner, a gorgeous new pendant light in my dining room, a farmhouse table on the way, and I have no chairs!” Sound familiar? That’s because most often, the chairs are the last item people buy and the one that can cause the most stress.  After all, you need 6, 8, 12 of them.  And who are you kidding?  You want them all to match.  You can’t try them out or sit in them before you…