Embrace a Yearly Ritual of Oak Care
Kave Home specify the Sterina wood protector at least once a year to keep this piece in perfect condition, and the instruction is worth following. Natural-finished oak has no thick film sealing it, which is exactly why it looks and feels like wood, but it also means the surface slowly loses the oils that repel water and hand grease. An annual application replaces them, evens out the tone where sunlight has lightened the timber, and stops rings and marks settling in. Ten minutes with a cloth each spring is the whole commitment.
The timber carries FSC Mix Credit certification, made from a mix of materials from FSC certified forests and FSC controlled wood, so the sourcing is documented rather than assumed. Place the chair where its stance can be read: at the end of a plain table, at a writing desk, or singly against a wall in a hallway, where the splayed legs and the woven seat register as a small piece of furniture design rather than seating filler. Keep the rope cord seat away from radiators, which dry natural fibre out.