BH | Studio Kinsale Cane-Back Dining Chair

Cane seating arrived in England in the 1660s, when split rattan woven into an open mesh came in from the East Indies, and caned chairs became the fashion of Restoration London and soon of the grand houses across the Irish Sea. Two centuries later, the bentwood café chairs of Vienna made the caned seat a fixture of coffee houses, bistros and tearooms, where it still belongs.

The chair has a curved back of woven rattan cane set into a hardwood frame with eased, rounded edges, and the seat is caned as well, light and slightly flexible as you sit. A ring stretcher circles the legs a few inches above the floor, adding strength and a place for feet. It is rated to hold 330 lbs. Its frame is finished in Jet, the classic bistro combination with honey-toned cane, or in Driftwood, and non-marking caps sit under each foot.

Use it as a single extra chair in a hallway, beside a console with the mail and keys, or at a writing desk in a bedroom. It fills a gap at the dining table when guests come and can sit in a living room as a light accent chair. Mix it with chairs of other shapes around a farmhouse table for a collected look, or keep it with black iron, white tiles and a bunch of tulips for a Parisian café mood. This listing is for one chair.