THE STRAPPED SEAT

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 243, 4 January 1928, Page 6

THE STRAPPED SEAT

A NOVEL COMBINATION Dining room chairs are being made in Paris just now which combine an old fashion with a new. They are on square, cubist lines, with a bar joining the heavy legs three or four inches from the ground. The back is square, or nearly so, and is made on a slope, which is far more comfortable than it looks. The seat of the chair and the upper part of the back are then made of straps plaited m and out, and having a certain elasticity. The strapped seat is no novelty, but its combination with the new furniture has not been seen before. It fits in extraordinarily well and it also gives It some of the mel--1 own ess connected by the neo-cubists with decay, but liked by the ordinary person without any theories. As a rule, the frame of the chair is painted brown, and the strap seats and backs are of the same colour. Sometimes the chairs are white, and the straps vermilion, but that is entirely a matter of taste. "With the chair there is also an appendage which very much suggests the old antimacassar. Its purpose is really to make the back and seat of the chair a little more comfortable. A piece of very thick corded silk is selected in cream or white, or something which goes well with the colour of the chair. The silk used is like that seen in church embroidery. This is attached to the back of the chair at the top, and is then pulled through the back, to lie flat on the seat, where it makes a kind of cushion. In some cases it is even padded a little. For all work where a non-slip sur- ; face is desired, such as walks, steps jand floors, the concrete should be fini ished with a wood float, which will give l a slightly rough finish.