BH | Studio Tisvilde Woven Dining Chairs, Set of 2

Woven seats are among the oldest ways to finish a chair. Country ladder-backs had seats of twisted rush, the Shakers wove theirs from cloth tape in the nineteenth century, and Scandinavian makers of the 1940s and 50s used tough woven cord. Each is light, gives a little under you, and wears in rather than out.

These side chairs have frames of solid hardwood in Honey or Hazel, with legs that splay slightly outward and slim stretchers low between them. The seat and the curved, open back are woven in a lattice of flax-coloured cord, so light passes through, the seat gives a little as you sit, and the chairs look airy around a table. Their simple shape pairs easily with almost any table. Each chair is rated to hold 517 lbs, and both arrive fully assembled.

Pull them up to a scrubbed farmhouse table in a kitchen, with a jug of wildflowers and a loaf on a board, or tuck them into a breakfast nook in a sunny corner. One can go to a desk or a dressing table. Warm wood and woven seats look easy with linen napkins, white enamel and a pendant of wicker, the feel of a summer house by the sea. This listing is for a set of two chairs.