Bramley House
BH | Studio Saint-Germain Cross-Back Dining Chair
- Regular price
- $199.00
- Sale price
- $199.00
- Regular price
The cross-back café chair has filled French bistros and country kitchens since the late nineteenth century, when steam-bent wood made seating light, strong and cheap enough to crowd a busy dining room. It crossed the Channel early, and the tea rooms and inns of English market towns took to light bentwood chairs as readily as Paris did.
This one keeps the classic outline: a curved top rail, two back splats crossed in an X, and a plain wooden seat on four splayed legs. Curved hoops beneath the seat brace the legs, so the chair stays rigid through years of daily use, and non-marking caps under each foot protect wood floors and tile. The frame is hardwood, rated to hold 330 lbs, and the seat sits at a standard dining height. The frame comes in a choice of finishes, and in the darker ones the crossed back stands out like a pen drawing.
Pull it up to a scrubbed pine table in a farmhouse kitchen for eggs and toast on a Sunday, or set a run of them round the dining table when friends stay on for dinner. One alone works as a desk chair in a study or as an extra seat beside a living room bookcase. These chairs bring a little Paris café to a pale kitchen: think white walls, a marble tabletop and a pendant lamp hung low. This listing is for one chair.
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