THE STRANDKORB – A UNIQUELY GERMAN BEACH CHAIR

Summer or winter, how about breakfast in a beach chair? Consciously do something different, buy fresh croissants, brew fresh coffee and spend breakfast protected from prying eyes by your beach chair. The light mesh in seashell is weatherproof and dyed through. The upholstery is completely removable and washable, so don’t worry about stains due to spilled coffee or jam.

The beach chair has 2 portholes and hand-woven, weatherproof braiding inside and outside. Here we show the braid made of 100% polyester in the shade of seashell. The braid is set twice and worked with a film as wind and rain protection in the middle. To avoid misunderstandings, beach chairs are not waterproof. Use a protective hood when it rains or remove all cushions from the beach chair. The protective hood matching your basket is available as an optional accessory.

Ordinarily, a Strandkorb is provided with interior fabrics, which are not removable and unfortunately tend to attract mould during the wet seasons. The deVries Group is the only provider of the PURE® STRANDKORB, these are both OUTSIDE and INSIDE braided and thus offer a special beach chair experience. An invisible screen – protective film between the inner and outer braiding – provides protection from wind and sand. The pillow cases can be removed completely. Thus the chances of mould forming on any part of the strandkorb is reduced to Zero.

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Details about the model SAILOR XL:

Teak wood, rustic look
6 mm flat ribbon PE branded braid
fully recyclable
Braided body on both sides
invisible wind protection – protective film between the inner and outer braiding
without textile lining
elaborately woven circular pattern
two aluminium portholes in the upper basket
Large angle of inclination, multiple adjustable for high lying comfort
XL – extra wide and deep seat
Stainless steel fittings all around
extra long and height adjustable footrests with telescopic extension
standard with a swivel cocktail table with snap lock
Handle on the upper basket
Upper basket with cleverly braided bezel
Return spring

Upholstery:

Removable cushion
Cushion cover with zipper, washable according to the label
thickly padded and removable foot cushions
height-adjustable and comfortable neck pillow
two cuddle cushions with down filling
removable awning

Better safe than sorry!

This beach basket has undergone a safety test by TÜV-Rhineland in accordance with DIN EN 581-1.

Environmentally conscious!

Only Indonesian timber from legal cultivation was used, which thus meets the conditions of the EU Timber Regulation. It’s so easy to protect the environment.

Oeko-Tex®

Oeko-Tex® stands for an independent pollutant test for healthy textile products of all kinds. All fabrics used for our pads and pillow trims are tested in an independent pollutant test according to The Oeko-Tex® standard.

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The career of a curious construct

The best of all inventions for a holiday by the sea or a clunky bourgeois accessory? At the German strandkorb or beach chair the spirits divide. The colourful monsters are an indispensable part of the German coastline, but on other shores they are hardly know at all. 127 years ago, in June 1882, the first beach chair was said to have been put up in Waremünde.

Legend has it that an elderly lady suffering from rheumatism entered the workshop of the Rostock basket maker Wilhelm Bartelmann in spring 1882. She asked him for a seat that would protect her from the wind and sun so that she could stay on the beach despite her illness. Bartelmann made her a single-seater beach chair out of wickerwork, which he covered with fabric.

Such chairs, however, have been around at the North Sea for quite some time, so it is questionable whether Bartelmann can really be considered the inventor of the beach chair. He might not have received a patent, since the basket maker Ernst Karl Nikolaus Freese offered a very similar beach chair with willow canopy and peddig cane, varnished with oil paint in his sample book as early as 1871. Legend has it that Bartelmann either refused to register a patent out of conviction or simply forgot to do so.

It was less the court basket maker himself but his wife Elisabeth who recognised the potential of the beach furniture and ensured that it spread to the German coasts within a few years. She took care of the marketing and established the beach chair as a seasonal piece of rental furniture for summer visitors. She also encouraged her husband to develop it further. Bartelmann designed the prototype of a two-seater with awning, footrests and side folding tables, which is still characteristic today (and for this reason he may well be regarded as the actual inventor of the beach chair, despite all its predecessors).

A former journeyman Bartelmann, Johann Falck ,later founded his own manufactory in the wake of his master. In 1910 he added an adjustable backrest to the beach chair, thus completing its typical structure. To this day, beach chairs are produced practically unchanged. However, a distinction is made between the Baltic and North Sea types: the beach chairs on the Baltic Sea are somewhat rounder, more curved than those on the North Sea; there the beach chairs are rather angular and straight-lined – like the sea, so the beach chair.

The typical strandkorb is about 1.6 metres high, 1.2 metres wide and weighs about 80 kilos. Beach chairs are therefore bulky, heavy and not easy to transport. The advantage of this construction method is that they cannot be easily stolen, towed, knocked over by the storm or washed away.

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