What a find (I think) of my Bentwood Armchairs! I found them over a year ago at The Front Porch Antiques Mall in Ottawa, KS. Many years ago, when we bought our farm table, I had in the back of my mind, I wanted chairs like this at each end of the dining room table.
The chairs were in fairly good shape, except the veneer had started to crack. I sanded the veneer as much as possible to make it smooth, then using a liquid sander de-glosser, I was ready to paint. I used three coats of Anne Sloan chalk paint. I decided not to distress the chairs, instead to let natural wear and tear distress over time.
Beautiful in white!
History: A bentwood chair is a chair made from wood that has been bent into shape using a steam process that was invented in the 1800s. This type of chair usually has a simple design and is made out of about six pieces of wood all held together by screws and nuts. Its wooden back is rounded. As one of the characteristics of a bentwood chair is comfort, it is often found in restaurants, hotels and bars. The chair remains popular today and is one of the most mass-produced pieces of furniture in the history of chair making.
History: A bentwood chair is a chair made from wood that has been bent into shape using a steam process that was invented in the 1800s. This type of chair usually has a simple design and is made out of about six pieces of wood all held together by screws and nuts. Its wooden back is rounded. As one of the characteristics of a bentwood chair is comfort, it is often found in restaurants, hotels and bars. The chair remains popular today and is one of the most mass-produced pieces of furniture in the history of chair making.
I used graphics from The Graphics Fairy website and here is my tutorial on using freezer paper and an ink-jet printer.
Finished! The Bentwood Chairs finally setting at my dining table.
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