Caned Oval Medallion Armchair in Solid Teak — Ribbon Crest, Spindle Gallery & White Damask Cushion

About this object

An open armchair built around a floating oval: a hand-caned medallion held between fluted posts, raised above a gallery of slender turned spindles, and crowned with a carved ribbon bow. The composition recalls Louis XVI medallion chairs of the 1780s, refined through Edwardian salon-chair influence. The double-caned oval — woven by hand on both faces — represents the caner's stiffest test, every strand a different length, tension kept even around a continuously changing curve. Crafted in North India's Tricity workshops, this piece unites French neoclassical vocabulary with Indian rattan-weaving tradition. The frame is solid teak in warm walnut polish, chisel-carved with ribbon crest, melon-reeded finials, and deep acanthus arm scrolls. The spindle gallery beneath the medallion — five matched turned colonnettes — creates an open structure that keeps the chair remarkably light at barely a dozen kilos. Arms sweep down and outward to a fluted seat rail; fluted tapered legs complete the silhouette. The loose seat cushion comes in white floral damask, customisable to client preference. Because both medallion and gallery are open, this is a chair you see through — designed to maintain transparency in the room. Transparency is this chair's gift to interior composition. Set against a window it permits light; beside a bed it never bulks the corner; before a bookcase or fresco it lets the wall continue speaking. It serves as dressing-table chair, bedroom corner chair, or the third seat drawn up when conversation expands. As a pair flanking a chest or console, it furnishes a wall with grace instead of weight. Pairs naturally with the caned settee, sharing both weave and logic. A connoisseur's piece for those who understand that the most elegant furniture is that which knows when to step aside.