Wicker armchair

Wicker armchair - Comfortable and convenient made of wickerwork technique

A wicker armchair is usually an armchair made by the wickerwork technique - and that from so-called wickerwork. A wide variety of materials are possible, for example, peddigree - better known perhaps as rattan, or wicker. A wicker chair will look great in any garden, terrace or balcony. It has many excellent features that predestine it for outdoor use. For example, a wicker armchair is often also a so-called high-backed chair, which means that it has a particularly high backrest, against which you can lean perfectly to sufficiently relieve your back muscles and spine. Often, a wicker chair also has a comfortable armrest, on which you can rest your elbows and arms accordingly comfortable. In addition, in a wicker armchair you generally have quite a pleasant, low seating position. So, this garden armchair is perfect to forget about the stressful everyday life, and enjoy a few quiet minutes.

The perfect material for a wicker armchair

As already briefly mentioned, so the choice of material for a wicker armchair plays an important role. A wicker chair, for example, is visually very nice to look at, but is rather unsuitable for outdoor use. Although this wickerwork is usually made of the robust wicker, which is also known as hemp willow, this is flexible as well as strong and is also often used as a transport basket for fruit, potatoes or vegetables in the industry. But as outdoor wicker furniture, they are only suitable to a limited extent, as long as you can not sufficiently protect them from the weather.

Therefore, much more suitable in the outdoor area is a wicker chair made of rattan, which is also known as peddigree. Rattan comes from the trunk of the so-called rattan palm and is a particularly high-quality material. In order to weave the rattan material, it must first be put under steam so that the rattan becomes soft and pliable. For the rattan furniture, especially the thick parts of the trunk of the rattan palm are used. Even after several years of using a rattan wicker chair, it is recommended to occasionally sporadically moisten the furniture, for example, wipe it with a damp cloth. In this way, the natural flexibility of the wicker chair can not be lost. However, this should not be done too often with water alone, because in the long run the rattan becomes "obdurate" and brittle. However, if you add a little saddle soap to this moistening process, the suppleness of the wicker will be preserved.

There is now also an industrially manufactured rattan called polyrattan. This generic term stands for artificially produced wicker material made of polyethylene. Visually, the material strongly resembles real rattan, which is why the term rattan garden furniture has become popularly used for furniture made of this material. Therefore, the polyrattan - by the way, a word combination of polyethylene and rattan - is used in particular for the production of garden furniture such as a wicker chair or even plant tubs, baskets, as well as garden fences.

An excellent example of a wicker armchair - The Dedon Barcelona armchair

A wicker armchair in a ravishing wicker look - this is what you can find especially at Dedon . The Dedon Barcelona collection offers many different garden furniture, from which especially the wicker armchair stands out, which is available, for example, as a lounge chair and as an armchair. To match, there are also visually beautiful stools, 2-seaters, 3-seaters, tables in different shapes and sizes, as well as a handsome, comfortable garden lounger. This designer furniture was developed by American designer Richard Frinier, who has won over 66 awards during his career as a product designer.

Like many other pieces of Dedon furniture, the Dedon Barcelona collection is made of the high-quality Dedon fiber, which is possibly one of the most comfortable industrially produced textiles in the world. Among the properties of this excellent fiber are that it is weatherproof, durable, as well as environmentally friendly. Incidentally, this fiber was developed by Bobby Dekeyser, who invented the recipe for it shortly after his time as a top goalkeeper. This may seem a little unusual, but it can be quickly explained by the fact that Bobby Dekeyser's family has been involved in plastics extrusion for two generations. So Bobby knows what he's doing, and you can see that in the end result of the excellent Dedon fiber.

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