{"product_id":"a-set-of-four-french-oak-and-rush-side-chairs-mid-20th-century","title":"A Set of Four French Oak and Rush Side Chairs, Mid-20th Century","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eA Set of Four French Oak and Rush Side Chairs, Mid-20th Century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eEach with a woven rush back panel secured at the corners by turned wooden boss finials, above a conforming rush seat, the square section back uprights continuing to square tapering rear legs, the front legs of baluster-turned form united by a turned front stretcher and plain square-section side and rear stretchers; the oak of warm honey-brown patination throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThe form drawing upon the vernacular tradition of provincial French chair-making, in particular the \u003cem\u003echaise paysanne\u003c\/em\u003e of the Auvergne and Burgundy regions, where rush seating and turned-oak construction remained in continuous production from the seventeenth century. The present examples, with their robustly turned front legs and the characteristic diamond-pattern rush weave to both seat and back, reflect the revival of interest in regional craft traditions during the mid-twentieth century and are closely related to the celebrated \u003cem\u003eChaise de Méribel\u003c\/em\u003e designed by Charlotte Perriand circa 1950 — itself a deliberate reinterpretation of ancestral Alpine and rural French prototypes. Chairs of this type were produced by regional ateliers in the Massif Central and the Rhône-Alpes and have since entered the canon of twentieth-century design through Perriand's celebrated advocacy of the vernacular.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Vault Sydney","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42284802736183,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2322\/8433\/files\/VS22170288.jpg?v=1782411633","url":"https:\/\/thevaultsydney.com\/products\/a-set-of-four-french-oak-and-rush-side-chairs-mid-20th-century","provider":"The Vault Sydney","version":"1.0","type":"link"}