Bar chairs for kitchen and living room - varieties of this type of furniture, framework materials and seats, modifications, operating conditions.
Photo M.Stepanov
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Sendage "Sendy" is made of rattan and covered with varnish
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There is a kind of chairs with amazing properties. Sitting on one of them, you begin to look different in a different way. They seem to somehow smaller. They guessed about what chairs speech? Well, of course, about the bar!
No matter how many people existed, there was always a place in it (at least in Western culture). Apparently, because most of the time - while the awesome person prefers still sit, rather than stand.
In the event, a new variety of furniture appeared in Russian interiors, with which a person can take a sedentary position. This is a bar chairs. Together with a bar counter, they now constitute a serious competition with a grandmother buffet.
The location where the bar stand will be equipped, may be the most extravagant corner of your kitchen or living room. Here you can have breakfast, please spend time in a circle of friends, organize a party with cocktails. Avot how comfortable will be at the rack, depends on the chairs that are pressed to it.
What should be a bar stool? What kind of modifications are presented in the modern market?
What is what
In addition to the actual bar chairs, there are still bar stools and half-circles. These three types of furniture "accelerators" differ in the same way as ordinary chair, stool and semi-crossed, namely, the presence or absence of additional parts that determine their design. Stool is the seat on the legs and without a back, calculated per person. A stool with a back, a semi-trident chair with armrests.Bar chairs are divided into two types: with wooden and with a metal frame. From wood, it is usually classic models, from metal-high tech, techno and other uncomplicated. If we talk about the configuration, the bar chairs are single-legged, two-legged, three-legged, four-legged, five-way ... For example, the Spanish AMAT-3 (Jamaica model) offers to your attention. Some chairs are confidently standing on widespread legs, others are elegantly "fall" on thin legs, the third is spinning around their axis, the fourth stepwise turn on a certain number of degrees. The most recent models, like office chairs, began to supply gaspatron, allowing to regulate the landing height, for example, products from the Caffe Collezione series of Romulus (Russia).
What do bar chairs differ from ordinary? First of all, the height, as well as the presence of a footboard and a reduced seats size (sililders of models).
The height of the seats of such products ranges from 60 to 85cm, although on the gas lift can be flushed above. Chairs with seats with a height of 60-65 cm are considered semi-minisses and are suitable for racks, towering above the floor at 90cm. Perhaps this height is ideal for the kitchen. Someone from the hosts, a semi-boring chair can seriously relieve life, as it will allow most of the job to perform sitting. But the height of the classic bar stand is 110-115cm, and it needs chairs with seats, towering over the floor level on 73cm and more.
Inini one decent bar stool does not cost without foot. Otherwise, how to relax on it? A person always needs to feel that at any moment he can firmly stand up on his feet. Therefore, the focus is obligatory, and it is desirable that the wooden models for greater wear resistance it is covered with metal or rubber.
The width of the seats usually varies within 35-42cm. But there are also those that are not inferior to the traditional models of chairs (45cm or more) on this parameter.
According to its shape, the seat can be flat and round (like pancake), attack square, oval, rectangular or in the form of a heart ... The cake was said, it is sometimes supplied with an elegant back and armrests. Made seats (and backs, if any) from wood, plastic, woven rods and synthetic threads. Pubbee formed polyurethane, foam rubber, holofider (an analogue of a synthetic procession, but better quality), then tosing skin or cloth.
Today, the main suppliers of this kind of furniture for Russia are Italy, Germany, Poland, Indonesia, Malaysia, Spain, China. There are both domestic producers of Bar High Bar History "Vista", Amma-Design IDR.
From the depths of centuries
At the chair, as the entire created and existing in time, has its own story. The earliest samples of this invention were found in the tombs of the Egyptian pharaohs and belong to the III-II millennium Don.E. Archaeologists have established that it was assigned to the chairs in those distant times only the royal policies. It was pleased with the approximal people (they were found in the same tombs, by the way, folding).
Arm and Rome Chair also was considered the attribute of power and power. Noble parties (Kurula) had the habit of carrying them with them, to periodically sit down and finish the trial over simple mortals. Vehofa revival merchants came up with how to sit on money in the literal sense. Ksundukov, where wealth was kept, they began to attach backs and armrests.
The real furniture revolution was performed in the middle of the XIX. Michael sink. This famous cabinetor who lived in Vienna, knew that if the wood was treated with steam or hold in boiling water, she would be sad. Thus appeared a chair with the epithet "Vienna" - light, comfortable and elegant. Pores as the subject of the furnishings of the chair especially widely stepped into the masses, permanently ceasing to be associated with knowledge and wealth.
A Naturelle
So, bar chairs with a wooden frame. Italian firms execute it, as a rule, from beech (Bakokko, Calligaris, Tonon). The cost of such chairs is from 12 000 rub. Polish products are cheaper, from 5000 rubles. Beech is considered one of the hardest wood rocks, so the masters are solid and durable products prefer to do from it. However, as they say, than rich ... Swedish bar chairs are often made of birch, Malaysian and Indonesian - from rattan and Givea (rubber tree). Avot some Russian firms (for example, Amma-Design) almost all furniture are performed from pine.
For each separate model of the chair, as a rule, there is a standard set of toning, so the customer can choose the most suitable color of wood (mahagon, cherry, oak, dark walnut, alder, wenge IT.D.).
The upholstery of soft seats when buying a bar stool can sometimes be replaced, having dragging the skin, leatherette or a cloth suitable for color and texture to the dwelling design. We want to draw your attention to that some firms are inhabit the seats with tissues treated with a special composition, such as Teflon impregnation (Calligaris, "Vista"). Such a sufficient becomes immune to liquids spilled on it.
But more practical are rigid wooden seats that are almost not wearing. If you wish, you can put any pillows.
Rattan furniture has already proven itself in the Russian market as durable, practical and easy. It is resistant to moisture and high temperatures, eco-friendly, besides manually manufactured. Rattan Prestige (Poland) performs chairs to order. The cost of one- from 10,000 rubles. If necessary, the whole kit is supplied - along with a bar counter and bar. The wishes of the buyer are taken into account both relative to the color of the rattan (in the catalog 24 of the shade - from orange to green) and upholstery.
The Russian company OLIMAR services on coloring does not provide (a warehouse program acts), but offers models of various configurations worth 5000-9000 rubles. The service life of the Rotang Bar Chairs is 20-25 years old. The trouble is that such furniture is broken. Nuts, but it does not break! After all, Rotan is very elastic.
Many bar chairs from the rattan are equipped with a hinge that allows the seat to spin around its axis. For products with wooden frame, the ability to rotate is rare quality. IKEA enclixing (Sweden), only one model "Ringo" from birch (1290 rubles) has a similar property (1290 rubles). It is not equipped with a hinge, but a screw mechanism, but is adjustable in height (it is only possible to twist the seat). This is another extremely rare quality for chairs with a wooden frame.
Mirandola Export (Italy) in the Liberty collection offers bar chairs from beech, whose seats begin to rotate only under the weight of human weight.
Interesting models are represented by Russian designers of Amma-Design: Bar Chairs "Richelieu", "Hunter", "Fisherman" ... They are filled out of pine and processed by a special composition that emphasizes wood texture (4000-5000 rub.). With its massiveness and clumsiness, they resemble chairs from a bearish hut, familiar to us on the "Three Bear" fairy tale. But they have their own highlight. Such facilities can look good in country houses and at dachas, especially complete with a bar counter, wardrobe, a wide dining table, benches and, if you want, stylized doors and chandeliers.
For people of economical or preferring to apply their own furniture, your own creative ideas of ICEA offers a bar stool "Odvar" worth 48 rubles. This high classic stool is made of a pine massif and, if desired, can be covered with butter, wax, varnish. The wear resistance of its surface will thus increase. Would you like to paint it with glossy paint?
On steel legs
The choice of bar chairs with a metal frame is also great enough. Their base is made, as a rule, from steel tubes and covered with chrome. But it happens, it is cast from cast iron, and, of course, such products will be squeezed.The seats at the chairs with metal frame are the most different, both rigid (plastic, wood, metal) and soft (foaming, better density is not less than 30kg / m3, latex). Soft seats are covered with leather, leatherette or cloth. Another kind of soft seats are made on the basis of gel filler. This material automatically takes the body shape of a person sitting on it, and in a free state returns to its initial form. Alleged with this in a person sitting on such a seat, it seems that the chair is created specifically for him. But gel seats do not like everyone. Someone they seem too slippery.
Romulus company has developed a collection of Caffe Collezione on a metal frame equipped with a rotary-lifting mechanism. The seats of the chairs of this series are made of ABS-plastic of increased strength. This material is environmentally friendly, hurt, has excellent performance characteristics (from it, by the way, bumpers for cars and snowboarders helmets are made). The same seats from this plastic are covered with high strength varnish. There are such furniture items 3600-6300rub. The manufacturer preferred not to give up high-quality plastic, so the products are not cheap. But still, their price is significantly lower than that of similar models of Western manufacturers. Of course, chairs with such characteristics are more appropriate in a cafe or in a bank at the "reception", but some Caffe Collezione models will look good in modern kitchen.
IKEA magazine among the bar chairs The leader of sales- "Franklin", the legs of which are made of steel with a pigmented powder coating. Seat and back, made of oak or birch veneer, covered with transparent varnish. A distinctive feature of this chair is that it is folding, so in a non-working condition takes quite a bit of place. Price - 1490 rub.
Vertical limit of american
The story of the bar stool began in the XVIII. In America, the flux of adventure crashes from all over the world. Life in the Taisturists began dried, but the business is profitable. Students, cowboys and other business people of that time constantly visited the establishment to reinforce the handful of earthwoods, a sandwich or some hot drink. The innkeepers not without reason began to be soldered from such guests a solid barrier. It was no time to linger to visitors, so the service and calculation took place quickly, right at the rack. After that, some rushed to the sand washing, while others have risen to their herds and herds ...
Over time, special chairs began to postpone the racks, sitting on which visitors could shut up with a bartender of a couple of words, order an additional portion of whiskey, but not to sit down long. These chairs began to call the bar.
How to use it
A few words must be said about the conditions of operation of the bar chairs. Most models are designed for a lot of 100-120kg. True, they say, products from rattan are kept and all 500kg! For chairs with gas lifts, it is desirable to observe the temperature regime not lower than 0c. The lower temperature can affect the pressure in the rotary-lifting mechanism, and will fail. Tree and fabric do not tolerate rain, high humidity and temperature drop, and metal quickly perceives the ambient temperature. So lovers sit behind the bar counter in the cold with a glass of Mulled wine in his hands will have to cut her and her, and bar chairs from ice! By the way, there are already examples.
People of small growth in order to climb the bar stool, sometimes you have to show a considerable skill. Here it is not bad to remember the lessons of physical education. What foot do you have a pushing? Suppose left. Then stand up on my sock, and then bend the other in the knee and sneeze on the edge of the seat. Well, if the legs of the right leg, you immediately feel the footboard. Then we change the stop from the left leg on the right and fill in themselves the entire seat area.
Models IRENA (A) and ELBE (b) on metal frames
With all conviniences
As folk wisdom says, the chair needs to be chosen by the spine. What is good for one person, not always convenient for the other. If the seat and the back is hard, it is important that they repeat the contours of your body: the number of points of contact with the buttocks increases, the pressure on each individual point decreases, the arteries are less cured ...Lovers spend a lot of time at bar racks can be advised to buy a bar half-arc - so that it is where to lean and put the elbows. The back of the chair will support the spine, and armrests are helping not tired by the shoulder belt.
Note where the footboard is located. If too high, it can serve a bad service, for example, a lady in a narrow skirt. Ebidets hard to rely on the foot of the foot to "take" the necessary height.
Another point requires attention. Is the footboard on one vertical line with the edge of the seat or closer to the central axis (maybe further)? If you have long legs, you may have impact chairs sitting on which you can bend the knees at an acute angle. If the legs are not very long, it is better that the footboard allows you to bend the knees at a direct or even blunt angle.
If the seat height is adjustable, do notice whether the height of the steps is adjusted (it changes with the height of the seat). Otherwise, it can happen that you take a high-up on the Gazlift, and the footboard will remain somewhere below. Then you will have to sit, the twisted legs ... It is exactly that the feature of the Bar Chair "Scully" firms "System Astek" (Russia). From which it can be concluded that for a person height 165cm and below this model does not fit.
Well, if the legs of the chair are additionally bonded between them with transverse rails (around the perimeter or letter "H"). This case is more likely that over time they will not run to the sides.
If the parts of the chair are attached to bolts, most likely, they will be required to periodically twist. This is minus. Now, individual details of such designs can be replaced (some firms provide such a service). This is a plus.
Square of the seat in the bar chairs is less than that of the usual. But it is not so felt if the seat is not limited to a deaf back or armrests.
It is useful to pay attention to the weight of the stool. Bar chair with a large mass, possibly more stable and can easily withstand large seats, but not comfortable with frequent permutations. At the same fall may pose a threat to the whole surrounding.
If you plan to install in your apartment a bar rack in the form of a tabletop on one or two legs or attached to the wall, think about it is better to buy it: bar chairs, half-and-hearted or still stools. If you need to save residential area, it is probably better to purchase the latter. With all the advantages, he sees not all sorts of their models can be pulled under the rack.
Caprician fashion
Recently, in Russia, demand on the bar chairs is growing steadily. Therefore, furniture manufacturers began to include them in collectible series along with conventional chairs and stools. Performed in the appropriate style and from the same materials, they look good together with their smaller "fellow". This kind of ensembles are simply necessary, if, for example, the kitchen is separated from the living room not a wall, and the podium and the dining table are installed on the border of two territories.
But even if the area of the kitchen allows you to place in it and a dining table, and a bar rack, high attention to the bar chairs is still guaranteed, because they have not yet become familiar to the modern home of the interior.
The West and East are constantly arguing with each other. Today we are talking about the bar compositions. These innovations of the interior introduce their unique flavor to our homes. But who knows, maybe, after some time, Dastarkhan will enter the fashion? Then wait for the material about the newest trends in the world of cats and curricula.
The editors thanks the company "Vista", "Disk", "Master Bar", ICTM, Romulus, IKEA, Olimar, Rattan Prestige and the Grand Shopping Complex to compare in the preparation of the material.