Want to make your interior with the same atmospheric as the French estate? Then you need to learn more about the furniture in the style of Provence. Today we suggest to look at the chairs.
The most important detail of the French provincial style is the use of natural materials in their natural form. Roughly painted parts, Shebbi-chic effect, natural wall plaster, tree and forging in chairs, elegant carved wooden parts and chairs, weaving, natural stone on the walls and semi ... Provence is so multifaceted!
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At the same time, it is the chairs in the style of Provence (as well as sofas, chairs, stools) can be a variety of: wrought iron, wooden from array, plastic "under forging", from rattan. The seats can have textile, from artificial fabric, wicker, even from ceramics or mosaic!
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Types of chairs in the style of Provence
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So, chairs in the style of Provence can be divided into three large groups.
Forged chairs
They are more Suitable for the garden. Usually produced with openwork elements and very practical: wear-resistant, not afraid of bad weather. They are any colors, although the classic white or dairy palette is most popular. The average cost of such chairs in Moscow - from 15-20 thousand rubles per piece.
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Wooden chairs
They are more often used for kitchen or dining room, veranda, terraces. Such chairs are most often performed in a bright or lowered natural wood palette, can be white, dairy, pale brown, pastel (pink, yellow, blue). The cost of such chairs in Moscow begins from 8-12 thousand rubles per piece, but the average price is much higher - about 20 thousand rubles per chair without a soft seat and about 25-35 thousand rubles per stool with a soft seat.
Wooden chairs are more atmospheric than forged, because the mood of a rustic coziness is much better.
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TO Reslas and rocking chairs
The most popular models of white or very light neutral shade. They look great in the interior in the style of Provence, Neoclassic, in Scandinavian style or country. Chairs can have a different form, but in general the common rustic appearance is always noticeable.
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Forged chairs in the style of Provence
For Provence, it is necessary that the furniture is aged, at least a bit, sometimes with a shebbi-chic effect. New furnishing items in such an interior are simply impossible, they will look too glossy and attract attention. The furniture should look like the family really served for 25, and then 50 years old! Such objects like chairs with carved items for wood, losing paint, here always by the way!
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Wroughtable furniture can stand not only in the garden, but also in the dining room, in the kitchen, on the veranda (or terrace) and even in the living room. In the style of Provence there are even wrought chairs with soft backs and seats. In general, there are so many options for images, ornaments and solutions.
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Forged chairs in the style of Provence there are two typical sizes. The first is chairs for a tea group with a very small seat, literally 35 by 35 cm. The height of such chairs is standard. The table is also very small, about 70 cm in diameter.
Forged chairs of the second format large, wide (sometimes even too), as if sofas, with dimensions of approximately 65 by 65 cm and with an increased height of the back (about 110 cm).
Forged Provence Style can also be about 65 in a depth and 130 wide, which makes it almost double sofa for the garden. At the same time, in the interior, such copies are extremely rare. Inside the premises, it is most often possible to meet only options 35 by 35 cm in the style of a tea group.
Wooden chairs in the style of Provence
Wooden chairs are usually told tone to the headset and the table, and the wrought iron can be black near the warm tint of the headset and white - with pastel and white tones. Wooden chairs are usually very bright at the base, while textile upholstery, on the contrary, bright, sometimes even screaming.
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Note that in the right interior can be used only one color of the painted tree. It creates the feeling that all the old furniture is repainted to the village manner. Looks very authentic!
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Pros and disadvantages of different types of chairs
The table below you will see the main advantages and cons of certain types of chairs discussed by us in this article. It is important to understand that they are all really real, so it is worth seriously considering their shortcomings before buying.| pros | Minuses | |
| Forged | Atmospheric | uncomfortable |
| Durable | Heavy | |
| Specify mood | You can not change style | |
| Wooden | Very elegant | Sometimes hard |
| Add utya | Slip on the floor |
White, cream or black chairs in the style of Provence?
White chairs in the style of Provence are most popular in any room at home, as well as in the garden. White color is usually chosen by a snow-white or dairy shade. Chairs and tables, dining groups in the style of Provence are used in other styles in the interior design, for example in Scandinavian.
Cream chairs are worth buying for interiors, where neoclassics and classics are influenced, and black is best suited for the garden, if black accents are already present in the landscape design or design of the exterior, for example, in forged fences or railings, in the design of doors and windows, roofing or Cole.
Nevertheless, white is for furniture in this style most common.
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Bar high VS. ordinary low chairs
Another interesting variety of chairs in the style of Provence is a bar version with high legs, a traditional French rustic silhouette, as well as a soft seat or pillow on the ropes. In this case, you need to choose them depending on the kitchen planning. Of course, the bar chairs look great at the kitchen island or bar rack, but this idea is only suitable for a room from 14-18 m2.
Classic Low Chairs in the style of Provence are more popular on ordinary kitchens, in small-sized apartments. Now many try to equip an apartment in a new building so that it looks like a rustic house, a villa or ranch, and therefore the popularity of this style is only grown every year.
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Chairs for the kitchen and dining room in the style of Provence
Provence kitchen is almost always a headset and wooden chairs from an array, print with roses, small decorative parts, wood carving. Of course, forged chairs, which we talked above are popular, but wooden are more often used in the interiors.
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Tables and chairs in the style of Provence: For how much you can buy
Provence stools are a fashionable novelty in the Russian market and many are very interesting. Thanks to their elegance and French charm, many replace ordinary options with a more standard appearance. In addition, Provence style chairs are cheaper than classic and neoclassical, which is also a plus for many.
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The cost of the dining group for 4 persons for the kitchen begins from 30 thousand rubles, on average - 50 thousand rubles. Designer models are about 50-80 thousand rubles at the table and 4 chairs with soft seats. Cheaper will buy a group. At the same time, a narrow coffee table can be bought for 10-15 thousand rubles, and the bar stool is for 12-16 thousand rubles.
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Want to know more about the style of Provence? Watch the video!