A NEW STRAWBOTTOM FOR A SEAT ?

The workshop is specialized in the restoration of antique strawbottom seats or designer chairs. Time is taken to do everything by hand to bring valuable seats back to life.

I do not use ready-made straw reels and cheap paper imitations. This would be time saving but would lead to a poor result that doesn't suit the seats I am entrusted with.

The straws selected are fine, of excellent quality and grown in France. The strand is made by hand in the traditional way.

You have the choice, according to your tastes and the style of the seats, between:

• the natural and raw look of the sedge,

• the satin look of the rye,
  

• a mixed strawbottom: a sedge base and a few strands of coloured rye.

Some 20th century chairs, sometimes signed by great names in design, require Asian sea rush, which is less fine, but nonetheless hand fashioned at the workshop, never out of a ready-to-use roll.

I try to restore using as much as possible the original raw materials and techniques.

COUNTRY ARMCHAIR late 19th century

Hand made sedge strand

Still a little green, but will get blonder as time goes by.

COUNTRY BENCH early 20th century

A finer sedge strand replaces the previous sea rush.

CORNER ARMCHAIR late 19th century

Polychrome hand made rye strand

Wood restored by Bruno Passarelli, art cabinetmaker.

LOW STOOL 1950-1960's

Mixed straw work : pink rye on a raw sedge background.

NURSE CHAIR late 19th century

Hand made polychrome rye straw work