Bramley House
BH | Studio Tetbury Cane-Back Dining Armchair
- Regular price
- $439.00
- Sale price
- $439.00
- Regular price
Cane seating arrived in Europe in the seventeenth century, when ships trading with the East brought rattan home and chairmakers learned to weave its split skin into a fine, open mesh. In Restoration England a caned chair was the height of fashion, and in French country houses the cane-backed chair has been a fixture of the dining room ever since.
This one has a straight, slightly raked back filled with a panel of woven cane, a fine open lattice of split rattan, framed in hardwood finished in Honey, Oyster or Jet, with short open arms and four slim legs. The cane lets air through, so the chair stays cool and light-looking, and the seat is padded with dense foam under a fabric in Heathered Cream or Pewter, comfortable enough to stay at the table long after dessert. The chair is rated to hold 330 lbs, and glides under each leg protect the floor.
Use a pair at the ends of a French country table, with plainer side chairs along its length, linen napkins and a bowl of pears. It is just as good as a desk chair in a home office, or as an occasional chair by a window in the living room. Wood, cane and soft fabric make a sunny, Provençal combination: pair it with stone floors, lavender in a jug, copper pans and blue-and-white ticking. This listing is for one chair.
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