This weekend I found a pair of bentwood chairs at the local MCC Thrift Store. They are marked Homa, Made in Denmark but I have not been able to find much of anything using this information. All my searching has turned up so far is a few images of outdoor chairs with the Homa sticker. I'm curious if anyone has run across any other furniture with this sticker?
I am also curious as to what type of wood might have been used to make these? I would like to clean them up but i am not sure how I would go about it. Should I be sanding, oiling etc...should I be treating the leather with anything? I have never owned leather furniture.
Thanks for any help, always appreciated!!
I don't know anything about the design but the wood is beech ply that has been stained to look like something else. Beech has short little rays (there's probably a different name for those things, but I don't know it) in the grain that give it away. They are more obvious when the wood is quarter sawn than the way it is on your chair (plain sawn). This photo of unfinished beech from the Hobbithouse wood ID site shows them pretty well:
http://www.hobbithouseinc.com/personal/woodpics/beech/beech,%20european%...
And this graphic shows oak, maybe (??). It has much bigger rays than beech but you can see how quarter sawing shows them off.
I know that all traces of sealer (varnish, shellac, polyurethane, lacquer, etc) have to be removed before applying stain, otherwise you'll get a blotchy result. You can either sand it off or strip with the appropriate solvent.
I don't know if old stain has to be removed; I've always thought no but I have little experience with staining so I'm not the person to ask about that.
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