An armchair that does not swallow the room

At 60cm in every direction, this is a chair with the presence of an armchair and the footprint of a dining chair. That combination is rarer than it sounds, and it is why this piece ends up in rooms where nothing else fits.

Regency proportion, Indian materials

The form is drawn from Regency cabinetmaking — the arms, the rake of the back, the tapered leg. The materials are Indian: solid teak, and cane woven by hand in our own workshop. Neither tradition is decorating the other; both are doing structural work.

Why cane on an armchair

An upholstered armchair in Kerala holds heat and damp, and after ten years it needs recovering. A caned one breathes, weighs a fraction as much, and ages into a deeper honey. It is the reason the plantation chair took the form it did, and the reasoning has not changed.

Specification

• Dimensions: 60cm W x 60cm D x 60cm H
• Material: solid teak with hand-woven cane

Making and delivery

• Handcrafted to order in Temple Town's own workshop in Thrissur, Kerala
• Dispatch in 4 to 6 weeks depending on availability
• Arrives assembled
• Slight variation in colour, grain and cane tone is inherent to handmade work
• 1-year warranty against manufacturing defects, termite and borer. Normal wear, accidental damage, improper use or cleaning, and natural wood movement are excluded
• As each piece is made to order, cancellations and refunds cannot be accepted once the order is placed

Temple Town builds in the Heirloom Modernism idiom: Indian craft held to the standard of the world's finest furniture, made to be inherited rather than replaced.