Bramley House
BH | Studio Cabourg Barrel Dining Chair
- Regular price
- $299.00
- Sale price
- $299.00
- Regular price
The barrel-backed chair, with its back and arms drawn round in one unbroken curve, goes back to eighteenth-century France, where upholsterers made the rounded gondola chair for salons and dressing rooms. It holds you on three sides, like a small armchair, while asking for little more floor than an ordinary dining chair.
Its frame is one unbroken sweep: the back curls round into low arms, then folds down and forward into a sled base that rests on the floor, leaving the back open above the seat. Beneath the upholstery is a plywood frame, covered all over in a performance velvet that resists stains, here in Mushroom, Terracotta, Claret, Aegean, Cream or Pewter. The seat is contoured and padded in dense foam, and the cushion is fixed, so the outline stays clean. A 19.5-inch seat height suits a standard dining table, the chair is rated to hold 331 lbs, and non-marking pins beneath the base protect the floor.
Set a run of them round a pale oak table with a linen runner and a jug of dried grasses, and the dining room takes on the calm of a gallery. It works just as well as a small accent chair: at a dressing table as a vanity seat, or in a reading corner under a cane pendant with a stack of novels close by. This listing is for one chair.
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