Wicker furniture for relaxation with comfort: material for "braid", designer design, fashionable color. Care tips.
"Lose Master"
On the summer, this sofa from the vine moved behind the threshold of the house along with potted plants
Pillows "Foren" from sisal of various shapes. Fashionable braided accessory of this summer for the convenience of seating
MEDITERRANEA Collection of Jalan Fiber
Metal and plastic "braided" give a varied model range of chairs and chairs
Bar composition Palmi from synthetic fiber Viro will find a use on both the street and in the house
The backs of the chairs of the classic Diva shape made of intertwined aluminum strips
Bamboo is able to make a unique even simple chair
In classic colonial chairs it is extremely convenient to sit
Items with contrasting color details are smartly looking and indoors and outside
The intricated grid almost does not wet in the rain and dries quickly
Bright leisure chairs - new summer holidays
Contrast of metal and bright polyethylene. Furniture set Faro.
The long-awaited summer is fleeting. But everyone wants to spend time relaxing with comfort. Wicker furniture, pleasant in all respects, was created specifically in order to help us relax and forget about everyday troubles.
Beach, summer, garden furniture is now generalized called furniture for recreation. Functions are blurred, and the chaise lounge, located in the middle of the living room, will not seem ridiculous. For the first time, this fashion was introduced by Le Corbusier. Rocking chairs, chairs with curved backrests and cane stools, journal, serving tables, upholstered furniture and accessories with weaving elements have become regulars not only cottages, but also urban apartments solved in a variety of stylistics. They are capable of brightening urban jungle with their own man. Therefore, look at the furniture, which will be spent wider, and not just like an element of summer leisure in the fresh air.
Actual trends
Therefore, large western manufacturers do not bypass the wicker furniture. Fashion legislator companies give assignments to the manufacture of famous designers. Their works serve as a guideline for other manufacturers seeking to meet the requirements of our time.
The range of materials from which can weave, great: from ropes to metal strips. Where the weave is impossible, it is replaced with an elegant grid. Form Colored "Braided". Not only types of tinting of natural material, emphasizing its natural beauty, but also an open color. Such models can be found from the Italian company Roberti Rattan, Indonesian Penjalindo Nusantara, Swedish IKEA. Slipping with fashion on color is relevant and furniture from bright polyethylene ribbons. Similar items are in the assortment of the Dutch Hartman, Italian EMU, German Kettler. The use of paints of different colors allowed to stitch the demand for "braid". Now young buyers do not perceive her as "Babushkina" furniture.
Some manufacturers of furniture for recreation, which have long been working with a natural braid, expand the framework of their range, introducing artificial materials. Go along the way of innovations. Others bet on tradition. Someone trying to combine both approaches. Plettenka diversifies the range of companies specializing in the production of completely different products: Finnish Isku, German Kettler, Russian "Kniksberg" and "Factory of Chairs".
"Personally, I like the wicker furniture so much that I recommend it to all customers. Now it is proposed a huge number of versions that imply versatile use. Rattan is good and at home, and in the garden. Ideal for winter cottages, where it is used all year round: first at home, and then in the fresh air. Wicker furniture toned in white, looks great against the background of plastered walls, for example, on bright patio terraces.
Proszia love to equip areas on the principle of landscape parks. There will be large sculptural things here, for example, pergolas, round benches of rough zeal. It is not necessary to be afraid to leave the furniture in the garden for the winter, the Willow is not terrible. Vine does not require a relaxing attitude.
Wicker furniture has to solitude in rural wilderness, pleasant relaxation in the Cherry Garden. Therefore, at the site, conceived as regular, like Versailles, do not put such items.
Board to the buyer: Even if you feel that wicker furniture on your site or in your home will feel alien, do not refuse to buy it, just select a separate secluded corner for it. "
Constructions and materials
In total wicker furniture manifold, a single frame principle of manufacture. The frame is made from the rattan, the yves vine, bamboo, wood, metal, less often plastic. Then flies the web from thinner rods, stems, strips, wires, branches, algae, rope IT.P. The parts are fastened with metal brackets or pins or glued. The joints of the joints are hiding under the braid. Often the framework is increasing not entirely, leave the "bare" metal feet of furniture. Manufacturers must specify the framework material and the method of connecting parts.Conditionally can be attributed to wicker furniture, which is inhabit the flexible woven web, such as sisal or aqueous hyacinth. Attack items, where woven parts are designed to relieve the design (both physically and visually) and emphasize the charm of another material.
Rattan and Co.
Ironic game with scale. Tolstaya rattan stems create a large-sized lattice of common and artistically expressive remains of rattan furniture. Thanks to the properties that nature generously endowed this plant, Calamus Rotang. This material said in detail in the article "Herbarium in the apartment and in the country". Regarding "expensive" German and Dutch manufacturers, are famous not only by the impeccable quality of their chic furniture, but also to the exact reproduction of historical samples, and now represent in the market and more massive products.
For example, the German Shuetz produces collections from large rattan stems in the AR deco stylistics and democratic series, where the curved aluminum is adjacent to weaving from thin rattan rods. The appointment of this furniture is universally: modern lines will be appropriate to look at the lawn, and in the apartment. The table is worth 12000rub., Stool- 6000rub.
It is believed that the Spanish-great colonialists introduced to Europe with wicker furniture. Their presence in the market of wicker products is noticeable now (manufacturers - CERDA, EXPORMIM, RATTAN-DECO). Traditional rattan items produce many Italian companies, including Varaschin, Roberti Rattan, Rattan Wood. The same companies are engaged in the Polish Factory Olimar and Prestige.
Most of all on the Russian market of Indonesian rattan, more affordable for the price (the chair costs approximately 4000 rubles). Such factories like SINAR SRI REJEKI UTOMO and PENJALINDO NUSANTARA, for 10 years have been delivered to our country. Furniture of decent quality, on the most demanding taste: with the use of leather, inlays on the IT tree. By the way, many European companies have their own production there, in Southeast Asia.
Beautiful emptine furniture makes from harsh linen hemp, soaked with silicone, Berkeley factory from the PRC.
"In the decoration of the garden, there are no forbidden topics and techniques. It all depends on the combinatorics, concepts and personal preferences. I, by the way, very much like garden furniture with elements of metal casting. You can use furniture items contrasting with nature, create" Oxymoron ". But more often A total come on the contrary. They try to emphasize the unity with her. Therefore, the wicker furniture is so popular in the country everyday life. Plastic, imitating natural materials, no matter how indistinguishable in appearance and touch, still inferior to them in the unique feeling of fragility for which everyone loves so much Braided furniture. However, many willingly go to such a compromise: Pillows, mattresses and bedspreads leave only a third of the subject. We have a whole manometer.
Board Buyer: Build from four peasants and any durable fabric (especially fashionable) awning. Textiles offer a lot of cheap good-quality material of a large width (100 rubles per meter). The fabric needs to be secured by nodes on the pants-racks you need. You can with the tilt, as did it on the Soviet "wild" beaches. Site of such a homemade awning, a group of wicker furniture will be not only attractive in appearance, but also protected from heat, dews and short-term rains. "
Russian vine
Competition of furniture from exotic flora is a Russian ventilator. It is a fertile and cheapest material that can become a subject of decorative and applied art in the hands of masters storing the traditions of weaving. Views of the vine 150, but not all are used for the production of furniture. Belolaz is most often used.
Wicker furniture from the vine is made of rods of different thickness. Each subject design structure consisting of a bent frame and braid. Products from this material are several types. The most primitive carcass, braided with a subtle unresolved vent rod, like a basket. An option with a braid from a thick-sized rod is more durable. The most traditional Lozo Weaving in the Russian school (there are other national schools) the option looks like this. The frame is made of a rod with a diameter of 2-4cm and is complemented by openwork structures from the rod with a diameter of 1-2 cm. Aiz of a thin rod woven all the "lace", which is not carrying a large load. The rods are cut in autumn or in the spring when the stems are filled with inside moisture and do not have leaves. Before starting work, the material boils to give it flexibility and get rid of fungal flora. If all rules are observed, the furniture from the vine is not less than 30 years. Before buying slot furniture, you need to try out. A small crackling is normalized by spikes of varnish between the rods. A sharp single crash speaks about a broken ripped rod is a marriage.
The range of losoplel artels is diverse. Dining groups, and racks, and dressers, and cute accessories like shirm or flower stands are made from the vine. The artels themselves are a lot: Porch, Kaluga, Moscow region, Vyatka ... There is a problem of finding their products to the buyer. Some have their representatives in major cities (for example, "Artel-Terem" in St. Petersburg) and produce products to order. Others sell their furniture on roadside. Moskovsk garden centers are more often found by the products of Arteel "Loza Master" and "Kaluga-Lose".
In addition to the vine, domestic bamboo objects (Gabriella Factory) appeared on sale. Russian furniture refers not to a wicker, but to the benuto-glued, which is worn out only the place of the joints. But put it on sale in one row with wicker. Comparatively inexpensive (chairs, about 4000 rubles) and light products from bamboo enjoy the success of buyers.
"The style of" Russian cottage "with an abundance of wicker furniture has developed a wave of the popularity of the tight bent furniture at the beginning of the last century. In the west, where the tone was asked the French, the country's furniture was mainly metallic. Russians to natural materials. This, explains the growing demand for woven furniture.
Javosportan classic decorator school, which teaches that functionality and mobility should be appreciated primarily. Therefore, wicker furniture I do not really like it because of my own briefness, 20-30 years. Such a service life seems to me too short. Quicks, with whom we rest are binding to the soul. It is still unpleasant when the beloved man begins to break. But I do not insist on my point of view.
Board Buyer: Try to use "Braided" in various combinations with furniture from other materials. Let the king play a switch, and this king will be either a braided sofa, or a chic braided table. Similarly, it is possible to "dilute" plastic furniture made of woven polyethylene. It is important that everything is confirmed by style. "
High tech
Large companies-manufacturers of furniture for recreation several years ago came up with an alternative to the "Pletsenka" (in the peak to those who considered it not too wear-resistant). Having spent the fair funds for development, they received (and instantly patented) an improved copy of the natural rattan in the form of a material that is not distinguvenched on the color or to the touch from the original. Natural cataclysms and wear to him. Ion gives unlimited possibilities to designers, because artificial bars can have any length, and they have no weak places on the joints of the structure. Synthetic materials allow weaving furniture items with high "lifting capacity". For example, garden sofas-swing (Gabar, Spain) for 3-4 people.
However, with such possibilities of new materials, the revolutionary new forms of wicker furniture have not yet appeared. The scale has changed: the products have increased greatly in size. The art of weaving is also not, common types are commonly used: kesh, basket IT.P. New materials-polymers are similar as twins, but how many creators are as many different names.
This industry appeared leaders. The German company Dedon has been producing furniture only from Hularo polyethylene fiber for 15 years. He is brought to Asia, where the furniture on the sketches of famous European designers hired by the company are carried away from it. Furniture of this level can be compared at a price with high-quality ratagged.
Similar material from the Italian FOPPAPEDRETTI is called jalan. Collections from Jalan manufacturer added to similar from rattan and water hyacinth. While the woven furniture for recreation of this world-famous company in Russia is supplied to order only for the season.
Once again about keeping
If the furniture is woven from natural materials (ventilating vine, rattan idr.) And most of his open-air life is in the open air, to extend the life of its service and save the original attractive look, lubricate the woven surfaces with shiny flaxseed oil. Do this at least once in the season, and in the humid climate more often. Linen oil- effective water repellent, and most importantly, it perfectly protects the material from wood bugs.
Furniture from the vine, if she was dusted in the house, you can take out to the street and get water from a bucket or garden hose, such a shower will not hurt. Wicker furniture is not afraid of frosts, just do not allow it to freeze, being wet.
The Danish company HomeBase is a novice on the Russian market - makes furniture only from own fibers Viro and Lomm, capable of withstanding heat to + 40 ° C and frost to -30c. Her woven sofas can be put in the garden in winter. All of the above manufacturers are guaranteed, despite the elasticity of new materials, the absence of deformations and suggesting seats.
The Dutch manufacturer of furniture for relaxing in the fresh air Hartman is one of the first to presented a collection of expensive synthetic fibers. But in its assortment, the company has more democratic offers - chairs from plastic tape of various colors that are not know-how, at a price of 5000 rubles. Attack Furniture using various grids. This is the same strategy and pricing policy of Kettler, but this company sells its woven furniture in Russia mainly to order.
A very wide range of street furniture of the Chinese Berkeley factory from brown plastic tapes (3000 rub. For a chair, from 6000 to 9000 rubles. At the table). It does not seek to copy the rattan, but it looks pretty with glass (kalen) and metal surfaces that imitate forging, casting and even patinated bronze under the ancient.
Funching IKEA summer 2005. There are models of chairs with backs and seats, tightened by rare horizontal cords. Nevertheless, it is also a weaving. In order for such a chair to be comfortable for seating, it can be put on it with sisal pillows.
For anodized aluminum furniture with a protective film applied to the metal (for example, Free Stile- China and Lifford- Ireland) uses a grid to soften the cold angularity of objects. Tightly woven from thin synthetic fibers, it passes moisture and instantly dries after the rain. But this is already quite distant relative of "Braided".
The editors thank merchant Complex "Grand", Millennium Furniture, "Business Bouquet", "Plant World", "Brussels", Boris, Geometry salon for help in preparing the material.