On a recent visit to the Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Palm Springs, I admired the unfinished bentwood chairs with black-tipped legs in the hotel's King's Highway restaurant.

Recreate the look with an unfinished beech wood Hairpin Back Bentwood Chair with Wood Seat; available at Kurt Petersen for $93 each, and a pot of black (or any color, for that matter) enamel paint.