BH | Studio Kinsale Cane-Back Dining Chairs, Set of 2

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.

These side chairs have a hardwood frame with softly rounded edges, the back legs curving up into a gently shaped back that frames a panel of woven rattan cane. The seat is caned to match, so it breathes on a warm day and gives a little as you sit. A ring stretcher circles the legs below to brace them and give feet a resting place, and each chair is rated to hold 330 lbs. The frame is finished in Jet or Driftwood, either of which makes the honey-coloured cane glow, and non-marking caps sit under each foot.

Pull a pair up to a small round table in a city kitchen, with a jug of flowers and the morning coffee, or set them at the ends of a dining table. In a living room they make light accent chairs. Painted wood and cane is the classic bistro look: style them with a marble-topped table, striped linen napkins and a pot of herbs on the sill. This listing is for a set of two chairs.