Club chair

A club chair is a durable use luxury armchair in the Art Deco style. He is a fully upholstered armchair, which was originally used for the furnishings of the club and public spaces, particularly in the English gentlemen's clubs of the 1930s; so was the name.

Origin

Club chairs were usually covered with leather and had a loose seat cushion. The mark of a club chair from a business perspective is always a classic cushion structure as was customary in the time of origin, using classic upholstery material. Construction, workmanship and materials of the 1930s guaranteed in addition to the characteristic shape of the corresponding seat quality that is not easy to achieve today with industrial upholstery technology.

Construction

Basis of a lounge chair always forms a stable wooden frame, ideally made of hardwood such as beech and oak, in some cases, from soft wood such as spruce or fir. The chassis frame was strung with jute belts crosswise on the bottom and so received a solid basis for the subsequent construction of the padding. In order to achieve the desired cushion height and high seating comfort, so-called were " double cone springs " or " waist springs " used. They served as individual springs to build conventionally laced spring pad. Although these springs were invented early as 1790, but were initially used as an open, unverknotete springs. Capable use they were only with the knowledge of the steel wire manufacturing in the 19th century; they had then in Biedermeier and Historicism in its heyday.

The waist feathers were sewn in the correct position with at least four stitches on the straps. Here it was necessary to work particularly prescient: A now with the nodes in the top spring ring at an angle of 45 ° to Gurtkreuz protruding tongue continued later "French lacing the fill yarns ", a standing at an angle of only 22.5 ° node later " German lacing "forward. Depending on the choice of the stitch loop around the spring ring could be half or fully, however, the stitches had to be drawn close to the spring ring in order to prevent displacement of the springs.

So sewn on the Jutegurte, you could bring the springs on the hardness and the desired height with individually identified " parking, Returns and node strings" later in desired longitudinal and Querschnürung with loops, beans and node in the form. For such seat paddings, six -to eight continuous waist springs with an unloaded spring height 17-34 cm and wire diameters 3.2 to 4.0 mm generally used. Was the larger the wire diameter was chosen, the greater the carrying capacity of the cushion.

To achieve the seat gap and the greater resilience of the springs took rearwardly from the number of flights and the wire diameter. Club chairs with front-mounted seat edge received a superscript front edge by the springs of the front row on the front frame or attached there are wooden bar were attached with staples. A previously including attached jute strips prevented when using annoying sounds ( and is still regarded as " rattling strip " known). A high- points of the front suspension springs with a lower number of required number of flights and led to these springs had to be laced separately as so-called " free-standing spring edge ". The outer spring rings were then reinforced with wire edges. The conference concluded with filling threads, where one distinguishes the doppelrechtwinklige lacing ( double French lace ) and the Diagonalschnürung ( German lacing ). Difference between these two lacings is that a firmer surface is produced by the German lacing, as the top spring ring is hereby adopted eight times, compared to the French laces, wherein the spring ring is taken only four times.

The now formed padding construction was covered with a layer of spring canvas. The following Formpolster ( older term "style"; French: form) is the supporting cushion layer with low softness that is brought by the padding edge in shape. As a common padding and stuffing materials for this were herbal fillers as Afrik, which is obtained from the leaves of the dwarf palm; but also alpine grass or forest hair, so-called sedge, arrived in southern Germany frequently. In the spring linen Lasierstiche were drawn, placed about three inches filler and good verzupft pushed under the Lasierstiche. Then Fasson canvas was stapled, infected and quilted, worn-out and tightened again. The following Pikierung from animal fillers such as cattle and horse hair made ​​up for the unevenness of the cushion shape and gave the cushion the necessary surface softness.

Was rounded off the seat of a lounge chair with a loosely fitting feather filled cushions. The described classic upholstery structure should be on all cases in the seat and back of such a chair, but is also found in the armrests on some chair forms.

Reference

In most cases the chairs were upholstered in leather. A reference with fabric such as flat fabric or velor was rare for this type of chairs in the time period and was preferred only in the 1950s and 1960s. The leather was vegetable tanned. Vegetable tanning agents are among the oldest materials, man has used for tanning; the tannin contents vary 8-70 percent. That often patinated leather ( cuir patiné ), so colored by hand after occupation of the chair leather was used, these pieces also makes visually unique.

Examples

The time of origin of the club chair is usually recognized in the period between the two world wars, so in the years 1920-1940; Many forms then made ​​club chairs are to be regarded as a typical " Art Deco ".

Club armchair Grand Waist: Again, the chair gets its name from the shape of the back.

Cognac club chairs, with round shapes.

Club chair in sheepskin.