Woven Daybed with Two Scrolled Ends in Black Stained Rattan

Both ends scrolled, which looks better and sleeps slightly worse, and that is the trade everybody makes.

Every piece here is woven by hand, which is not a marketing line but a description of the only way it can be done. Rattan cannot be machine woven around a curve, so a chair back is somebody sitting with a former and a bundle of soaked cane for most of a day. The consequence is that no two pieces are identical, that the binding at the joints varies slightly, and that a weave that is perfectly regular is usually a sign of extruded plastic rather than good workmanship.

Specification

• Dimensions: 1950 by 850 by 900mm high
• Seat or working height: seat height 420mm with the cushion
• Frame: steam bent rattan pole over a hardwood core
• Weave: hand woven, close weave on the deck
• Finish: rattan stained through rather than painted on, so a scuff shows dark cane underneath instead of pale cane through black paint
• Load rating: tested to 200kg
• Indoor or outdoor: Indoors, or a covered veranda or conservatory that stays dry. Natural rattan is not garden furniture and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you a chair that will go grey, swell, split and unravel inside two seasons. If you want rattan outdoors you want woven polyethylene, which is a good product honestly described and something we do not sell.
• Assembly: Arrives with the legs off, which is four bolts and about ten minutes. The spanner is in the box and the bolts are threaded into steel inserts rather than into the timber, so they can come off again for a move.
• Weight: approximately 52.0 kilograms
• Mattress or cushion: 80mm deck cushion included, covers removable
• Takes a standard single mattress if you want it as a spare bed
• Deck: woven, which gives slightly and is why it is comfortable without a thick mattress
• Legs bolt off for a move
• Covers washable at 30 degrees

What you get

• One woven daybed with two scrolled ends
• Deck cushion with a removable cover
• Two bolster cushions
• Felt pads, a spanner and a care card

Care

Covers come off and wash at 30 degrees on a gentle cycle. Do not tumble dry linen, put it back on the pad slightly damp and let it dry into shape, which is the trick that stops linen covers shrinking away from the corners.

Where it works

The boho end of the range, which mostly means texture. A woven piece next to a plain one reads as considered and three woven pieces in a row read as a garden centre, so the rule we give people is one large woven piece per wall and as many small ones as you like. Works particularly well against a dark wall, where the light catches the weave and the piece stops disappearing.