BH | Studio Camogli Rope-Weave Dining Chair

Woven seats are among the oldest ideas in chairmaking. Country chairs across Europe sat on twisted rush for centuries, and just along the Ligurian coast from Camogli, the chairmakers of Chiavari have built famously light chairs with finely woven seats since the early nineteenth century. Danish makers of the mid-twentieth century took up woven cord for the same reasons: a seat with a little give that breathes and lasts.

This chair has a wooden frame with a gently curved back rail and slim stretchers set low between the legs, braces that make the frame strong as well as light. Both the seat and the back are woven from rope in a tight, even pattern, the seat dipping slightly to cradle you, and the weave lets air through, so it stays cool on a summer evening. The frame is hardwood, each chair is rated to hold 330 lbs, and it arrives fully assembled, ready to pull up to the table.

It belongs at a scrubbed kitchen table or a long table on a sunporch, laid with linen runners, a jug of wildflowers and bread on a board. It is light enough to carry to a desk, and handsome enough to stand alone in a living room or a front hall as an extra seat. Rope and wood bring a relaxed, seaside summer feel to any room. This listing is for one chair.