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Many people are skeptical when they try to buy any furniture which is not in the mainstream. Some of their reasons to not buy includes – will it look good in my house or will it stand the test of time and the most common one we get to hear is will it be comfortable enough for long periods of sitting. This blog answers this most important and common question in the context of Rattan Furniture.
Rattan Furniture overall is very comfortable. The reason they are comfortable is because of the rattan material. Rattan has some specific qualities that make it the go to choice when you are looking for comfort.
There are many occasions when you are sitting on a lounge chair and then due to the materials used on that furniture, you feel that your back is sweating because of the lack of breathability of that material. That’s where one of the rattan’s properties comes into play, which is that it absorbs heat from one’s body, when they are sitting on it for a long period of time. Being a natural material, rattan is extremely good in providing you with breathability. If you are looking for a rattan lounge chair, where you intend to spend a majority of your time relaxing, then you must check out the Haven Lounge Chair. It is the perfect chair for you to relax for the evening and perform your favourite activity.
One of the most important properties of rattan is the flexibility of it. You can literally bend rattan 360 degrees without it breaking. The reason for it being so flexible is that it is a vine which creeps on the trees and the core of rattan has a lot of capillary in it which makes it very pliable. In the olden days, people in the forest used rattan as a transport mechanism for transporting water from one end to the other through its capillaries. So, because of its flexibility, the rattan can be easily handcrafted to match the human curves and thus providing them with the utmost comfort that they require. To understand better the importance of the flexibility of rattan, please check out our informative video.
In the market you will find a lot of rattan chairs that are not comfortable and look ugly. The reason for that is, many vendors just copy designs from social media and try to replicate it. That is the reason, those chairs are not comfortable. When a designer who knows rattan and has worked with it, he designs it in such a way that it is comfortable for the person sitting on it. The designers take in account the merits and the demerits of rattan and make their designs accordingly. Experienced designers keep in mind the comfort, manufacturability and practicality of a chair when they design it. They design it in such a way that it is also light to move around and they try to incorporate a stacking feature so that one can save space in their houses. One of our furniture, the Whisper Dining Chair, designed by Mr Yamakawa, ticks all the design principle that is required to make a rattan dining chair.
One of the main design elements of rattan furniture is its weave. The weaving is so important in rattan furniture because it is the weave which supports one’s body while sitting on it. A well weaved chair gives one a cushion effect to the person sitting on it and thus making it very comfortable. Due to the flexibility of rattan, when a person is sitting on the weave, the weave to an extent bends itself to provide support for the person sitting on the chair. In rattan furniture, there are two segments where the weave is applied, one is the sitting area and another is the backrest of the chair. The weaving at the sitting area should be very strongly woven, because this is the space where the extreme weight will be applied and it should withstand that pressure. While the back of a chair can use the pre-woven rattan webbing, as the pressure applied on the backrest is relatively less compared to the sitting area.
To make Rattan Furniture comfortable and strong, one has to use the right kind of raw materials. The high-quality rattan furniture requires high quality rattan such as rattan tohiti and rattan manau for the construction of the frame. These rattans are very important in providing the chair with structural integrity and the flexibility it requires. The weaving requires the highest quality of rattan skin/peel, which is extracted from Rattan Lunty or Rattan Jahap. The reason one should use skin/peel extracted from lunty or jahap, is because they can only handle extreme weight and provide comfort when one sits on the furniture.
Considering all these factors and applying it while designing the rattan furniture makes it comfortable and long lasting. If you are looking for comfortable and long lasting rattan furniture, then please do have a look at Reve Rattan’s collection.
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