Belmar Slipcovered Dining Chairs (side chair and armchair)

Room×Lab Review · Review updated September 28, 2026 · Evidence rechecked September 29, 2026

Side-chair owners praise comfort and smooth-rolling casters; across both Belmar chairs, a few report caster failures and long delivery waits

Crate & Barrel shows 296 ratings for the whole Belmar collection, mostly banquettes (54-inch benches, singles, corners, L- and U-shaped loveseats). Room×Lab read 239 distinct written reviews from it; about 23 are about the chairs: ivory side chairs (the chair shown), ivory armchairs and two grey armchairs. They cover comfort, casters, the slipcover's look and cleaning, the armchair's lumbar pillow, and ordering and delivery. Most are short, and no chair owner states how long they have used it, so these are early impressions. Pilling, cushion-sag and softness complaints are about the benches. The reviews below show the most common praise and the main complaints: slipcover fit, casters and delivery.

Room×Lab rating: 6.3 out of 10 (limited confidence). Side-chair owners praise comfort and smooth-rolling casters, and owners of both chairs find the covers easy to clean. Armchair caster failures, wrinkled covers, long delivery waits and no owner account of long-term use keep the score down. The 4.3-star average also includes Belmar banquettes.

• Comfort draws the most praise on side chairs and armchairs: 16 favorable mentions and 1 critical mention about seat comfort and size. — Owners of ivory side chairs, ivory armchairs and grey armchairs call them comfortable, and one uses an armchair as a work-from-home desk chair. The one critical mention comes from a side-chair owner who found the chair too small.
• Casters roll smoothly for many, but a few owners report problems: 10 favorable and 4 critical mentions about the caster wheels. — Owners of both chairs praise how smoothly they roll. The four complaints: side-chair wheels that feel cheap, armchair wheels that cannot lock, an ivory armchair whose plastic wheels kept shattering, and 5 of 8 custom grey armchairs that arrived with bad casters after more than three months. Separately, a midnight armchair owner received a damaged wheel.
• Owners find the removable slipcover easy to clean so far: 7 favorable and no critical mentions about cleaning and the removable cover. — Owners say the cover comes off easily, cleans easily and has resisted stains so far; some call it washable, but none describes laundering it, and none reports stains or pilling. The listing says spot or dry clean.

Before buying

Choose the Belmar side chair for comfort and smooth-rolling casters if you can accept caster failures reported on armchairs and multi-month delivery waits. Ask whether its casters lock and can be replaced, and plan to spot or dry clean the cover.

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