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Adirondack
Outdoor Furniture -the History Behind The Name
By Toby Russell
On the shores of Lake Champlain near the Adirondack Mountains of New
York is a small town named Westport. The very first Adirondack chair,
appropriately named at that time, the Westport chair was invented.
Blue Mountain Lake New York hosts the Adirondack Museum where the
history of the interesting and comfortable furniture is displayed for
those who are interested.
Thomas Lee, a Westport resident, loved the outdoors and spending time
there with a large family. The home they lived in called Stoney Sides
had a vast shortage of lawn furniture. As a result, on the lawn in
front of his home in 1903, Mr. Lee created a new contraption of nailed
together boards to try out as new chairs for the 22 members of his
family to sit in and comment on. With all of the family participating,
Lee purportedly created the innovative chair we see today complete with
slanted back and arms and wider rests for the forearm.
Mr. Lee was acquainted with a carpenter named Harry; so the story goes,
the carpenter owned a small shop in Westport. Mr. Lee wanted several of
the chairs made so that he had enough for the entire family to use
while they were outside talking together. The result was a bit more
than he might have asked for and certainly more than he bargained for.
Harry Bunnell concluded that the visitors and full time residents to
the town would appreciate Mr. Lee’s prototype chair and that
he should make a few more chairs. To sell to them. He saw the potential
for a fairly nice profit from the sales of the chair and without Mr.
Lee’s knowledge, he took a patent on the chair which was in
the process of becoming one of the best known furniture pieces in
history, surpassing even very famous antique names.
Mr. Bunnell’s chair became more than widely popular and he
experimented on some new versions and variations. Over time the chair
became known for the region of its invention rather than the towns and
the name evolved into the Adirondack chair. They sold extremely well
and made a very nice profit for Mr. Bunnell during his lifetime.
They sold at the time for about four dollars a chair. Today those first
chairs built fetch a fairly tidy sum of about 1200 to 1500 dollars each
for the original builds.
The Adirondack chair will remain well known and well used due to a
simple fact of life that although its not the most attractive design
you can't beat it for comfort Generally, a chair will remain popular as
long as people can sit comfortably,and with an Adirondack your legs
rest better and more comfortably for the slanted seat and the arms have
more room to balance your books and a drink on. The Adirondack chair is
the epitome of this comfort factor; its popularity and use indicate the
comforts offered by it. And over 100 years later its still going strong.
Toby
Russell is the owner of the outdoor and garden furniture website,
www.gardenfurnituresuperstore.com which specialises in offering any
extremely wide and extensive choice of garden furniture and accessories
from leading suppliers
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