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So much generous advice! You folks are everything that is awesome about the internet.

I bit the bullet and cut open the back cushion. I found screws on the inside back on a horizontal metal bar that runs partway across the middle before going through the wood on both sides (yay!), but the screws were apparently only there to help hold the bar on or stabilize it, since they were shallow, and removing them had no effect (boo!).

No visible screws anywhere, but there are holes in the right and left sides of the rubber somethings, which might support the clip/lever theory. I wish I could get in there and take pictures for you, but the space is just too tight. I shall locate a small screwdriver and see if I can find a lever.

Thank you all so much!!!

Hm, no luck with the tapping. On the plus side, I do feel better! Maybe I should take a rubber mallet to something at the end of every workday!  :D

HA! Thanks, SteveA. I didn't mean the people -- just that everyone I know who's tried their hand at reupholstering anything other than a dining chair has wanted to get stabby with their project piece at some point! :)

I thought maybe there was some simple trick I just didn't know about. I can try going through the front of the cushion, certainly. Maybe there's a clue on the other side of the wood...

Total newb here. In an effort to dip a toe into the shark-infested waters of furniture restoration, I bought a Stow & Davis side chair for ten bucks to refinish and reupholster. You know, the sort of thing that was probably in a doctor's waiting room with a couple tattered Life magazines on the table next to it -- potentially a fun chair, but nothing it would kill me to mess up.

But I immediately hit a snag: I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get the back cushion off! It's attached via rubber-covered... somethings. It's built like these chairs; the last 2 pics show the structure of the back: https://new.liveauctioneers.com/item/13505444_pr-stow-davis-american-modern-walnut-arm-chairs

There were screws in little metal tabs attached to the back of the chair; I removed them to no effect. What am I missing? A million thanks in advance!!!