Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
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Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS
Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French circa 1950 | Maison BARROIS

Pair of Rattan Armchairs, Mid-Century Modern, French, circa 1950

Pair of Design Rattan Armchairs. French Work. Circa 1950. W. 62 cm × D. 78 cm × H. 99.5 cm.

Réf : 50's-62934
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PRODUCT DETAILS

Dimensions en CM 62 x 78 x 99.5 cm
Dimensions en INCH 24.41 x 30.71 x 39.17 inch
Période 1940–1950
Style Mid-Century Modern
Matériaux Rattan

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

These two rattan armchairs represent an exemplary moment in the French decorative arts: the assimilation of a material with colonial origins into the grammar of postwar modernist design. With dimensions of 62 centimetres wide, 78 deep, and standing 99.5 centimetres tall, each chair achieves an impressive presence without sacrificing the material lightness that is rattan’s defining quality. The woven surfaces catch and hold the light, the rhythmic geometry of the weave creating a surface that is at once structural and ornamental.

Rattan—a climbing palm native to tropical Asia—had been a fixture of colonial verandas and leisure furniture throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, its lightness and natural resilience making it the ideal material for humid climates. In postwar France, designers reclaimed rattan as a vehicle for a new domestic aesthetic: informal, sun-drenched, alive to the pleasures of indoor-outdoor living. The Mid-Century Modern movement found in rattan a natural ally—a material whose organic geometry and inherent flexibility allowed it to follow the new rounded, welcoming forms of 1950s design without the heaviness of upholstered alternatives.

Acquired as a pair, these armchairs carry a social charge that a single chair cannot: two seats imply a third presence, the animated space between them charged with the expectation of conversation. Arranged facing one another or placed side by side, they define a microarchitecture of human encounter within the domestic interior. Their light frame and generous proportions make them equally suited to a salon, a covered terrace, or a study—versatile objects whose appeal transcends the period of their making.

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