Celebrity Dining Chair Styles That Keep Showing Up on Instagram

Scroll through enough celebrity home tours and dining room posts on Instagram and you start noticing the same types of chairs appearing over and over again. The materials change slightly, the colors shift between seasons, but the overall direction points toward upholstered seating that photographs well and signals a certain kind of relaxed wealth.

Velvet and boucle have basically taken over, and if you look at what designers are recommending for 2025, those two fabrics dominate every trend list out there.

The Velvet Chair Takeover

Velvet dining chairs keep getting called out as the must-have for luxury dining spaces heading into 2025, and the reason comes down to how the fabric behaves on camera. The pile catches natural light in a way that creates visible depth and texture even in smartphone photos, which matters more than people realize when you’re trying to make a dining room look expensive in a flat image.

What the trending velvet chairs have in common

• Fully upholstered with wraparound or barrel backs that make them look more like lounge seating than traditional dining chairs, so the whole setup feels relaxed rather than formal even when the table is set for a dinner party.
• Slim tapered legs in black metal or brass which keeps the visual weight down so the chair doesn’t block whatever else is happening on or around the table in photos.
• Jewel tones or soft muted shades depending on whether someone’s going for drama (emerald, teal, navy) or that quieter neutral look (blush, greige, soft caramel).

Celebrity example: Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Musgraves has greenish-yellow velvet open-back dining chairs in her Nashville home, and design publications have been pointing to that setup as exactly the kind of thing that’s trending right now. The saturated but soft color pops against her neutral walls and marble table without screaming for attention, which is the balance most people seem to be chasing.

Boucle: From Sofas to Dining Chairs

Boucle started as a sofa fabric that everyone suddenly wanted a few years ago, but it has spread into dining chairs as part of this whole soft luxury wave that celebrities keep leaning into. The texture reads as cozy and expensive at the same time, which is a tricky combination that most fabrics can’t pull off.

You see it mostly in off-white, beige, and soft caramel tones, usually on chairs with rounded tub or shell backs that have this chunky, almost cloud-like silhouette.

The celebrity connection

The association with boucle is strong enough that furniture companies actually market “celebrity-inspired” collections built around the fabric. Names like Kylie Jenner, Gabrielle Union, and Miranda Kerr come up constantly in articles about boucle seating. While most of those references are to living room furniture, the same language has crossed over into dining chair marketing.

Why boucle photographs so well

The nubby texture shows up even on smartphone cameras, which adds instant depth to tablescape shots and close-ups. The curved forms photograph softly against darker tables and floors, reinforcing that soft-luxury aesthetic without needing professional lighting or editing.

The Mix-and-Match Move

One of the approaches that design media has been highlighting as very 2025 is mixing two different upholstered chair styles around a single dining table. The idea is that it looks styled and intentional rather than like you bought a matching set from a showroom floor.

How Kacey Musgraves does it

She has four greenish-yellow velvet open chairs around her dining table combined with two rounded boucle chairs at the ends. Her designer Lindsay Rhodes put together a setup where:

• The velvet chairs line the sides in that saturated color that catches attention
• The boucle chairs anchor the ends acting as soft “bookends” when you shoot down the table
• The textural contrast between smooth velvet and fuzzy boucle reads as deliberate and editorial

Interior expert keep saying that matching dining furniture is on the way out and that this eclectic contrast creates a more visually interesting dining area. Whether people actually want to deal with buying two different chair styles is another question, but the look does photograph better than a uniform set.

What Makes These Chairs Work on Camera

Across celebrity dining rooms and the luxury guides that track these trends, the upholstered chairs that perform best on Instagram share certain traits regardless of fabric choice.

The “Holy Trinity” of Soft Luxury Dining

Design guides keep calling out a specific combination as the formula for modern luxe dining rooms:

Marble + Brass + Velvet

A marble table (white and green marble are trending hardest right now) with velvet chairs and brass pendant lighting covers the bases that most celebrity-style dining rooms are built on. Adding boucle through end chairs or accent pieces extends the textural contrast without breaking from the overall direction.

Other materials that keep appearing

• Brushed or antique brass rather than shiny polished brass, showing up on chair legs, chandeliers, and table bases
• Warm stained woods mixed with marble or stone tops for that “curated” rather than “showroom” look
• Neutral palettes with one accent shade leaning into that quiet-luxury narrative

Finding the Look Without the Budget

The tricky part with any celebrity-driven trend is that the actual pieces in those photographed dining rooms often come from custom designers. Kacey Musgraves worked with Lindsay Rhodes, Kylie Jenner has used Martyn Lawrence Bullard. These aren’t off-the-shelf setups.

What translates at normal price points

The core elements exist at basically every budget level:

• Velvet barrel chairs with tapered brass legs show up at discount furniture sites through luxury retailers
• Cream boucle tub chairs have become common enough to find at major furniture chains
• The mix-and-match approach actually helps here because you only need two statement pieces at the ends while side chairs can be simpler

Hashtags that surface this content

If you want to see more examples of what’s actually trending rather than generic dining room content:

• #diningroom + #luxuryhomes
• #luxurydining + #interiordesign
• #quietluxury + #diningroomdecor
• #softluxury + #diningroom

Where This Goes Next

The soft-luxury direction in celebrity dining rooms has been building for a while and shows no signs of reversing. If anything, 2025 trend pieces suggest it’s intensifying with even more emphasis on curved silhouettes, mixed textures, and upholstered seating that prioritizes comfort and photography equally.

For velvet: Jewel tones remain the statement choice for people who want color impact.

For boucle: Cream and beige continue expanding for those going full neutral.

For styling: The mix-and-match approach that Kacey Musgraves exemplifies seems positioned to become more standard, with matching dining sets getting framed as dated while the “styled not showroom” look gains ground.

The playbook is fairly clear at this point: upholstered chairs in velvet or boucle, curved shapes with slim legs, neutral palettes with optional jewel-tone accents, and materials that layer texture over flash.