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

Caned chairs became fashionable in England after the 1660s, when woven rattan seats and backs arrived through the East India trade and offered a cool, light alternative to heavy upholstery. The French café later made the cane-backed chair an everyday thing, and it has rarely been far from the kitchen or the terrace since.

Each chair has a solid hardwood frame finished in Jet or Almond, with a back panel of natural woven cane, softly rounded at the corners, that lets air through and gives a little as you lean. The seat is bentwood, a sheet of wood bent and moulded into a shallow dish, faced with a matching wood-grain veneer. The chair is light enough to lift with one hand, each one is rated to hold 330 lbs, and non-marking foot caps protect the floor.

Set them around a scrubbed pine table in a farmhouse kitchen for daily meals, or use them as accent chairs in a living room, an office or an entryway, where one gives a seat by the door. Jet or Almond frames and golden cane look sharp against white walls, blue and white china and a black and white checked floor, like a Paris bistro at home. This listing is for a set of two chairs.