Teak Caned Roundabout Chair

You end up sitting sideways in one of these, an arm hooked over the rail, which is what the shape invites.

The crest is a single shaped plank, waisted through the middle and flaring at both ends, cut so the grain runs the full width. Below it the arm rail runs as one continuous curve, from the front of one arm around the back and out to the other, so back and arms read as a single sweep rather than three separate parts.

The gap between that rail and the seat frame is filled with turned spindles, running the whole way round. Heavier turned posts at the front corners take the arm's weight where you push down to stand.

The seat is caned by hand. Front legs are turned with ring collars and a tapered foot, back legs plain and raked, no stretchers. A shaped apron with a scalloped lower edge runs below the seat.

Cane gives with use and warms faster than timber. It will need redoing at some point, and we do that here.

Put one at a writing desk, one in the bedroom corner that collects clothes, or a pair on a covered verandah. Covered matters, because sun and rain both finish cane early.

Made in our Jodhpur workshop.