Adirondack Chair
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This 1/6th scale model is my version of the Adirondack chair. It is made from Spanish cedar, brass screws and brads, and with an oiled finish. This style of chair was designed by Irving Wolpin who was given US Patent #109,239 in 1938.
There are many variations of this chair. To give an idea of how many, let me quote the opening lines of The Adirondack Chair : A Celebration of a Summer Classic by Daniel Mack, 2008.
"This is a book about a chair.
Actually, a clan of chairs,
with ancient ancestors, cousins, spitting images,
and loved ones who have passed on ...."
"The first Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee while vacationing in Westport, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains, in 1903. Needing outdoor chairs for his summer home, he tested his early efforts on his family. After arriving at a final design for a "Westport Plank chair", he offered it to Harry Bunnell, a carpenter friend in Westport in need of a winter income. Bunnell saw the commercial potential of such an item being offered to Westport's summer residents, and, apparently without Lee's permission, filed for and received U.S. patent # 794,777 in 1905 (www.google.com/patents/us794777). Bunnell manufactured hemlock plank "Westport chairs" for the next twenty years, painted in green or medium dark brown, and individually signed by him.
Modern Adirondack chairs usually feature a rounded back and contoured seat, modifications made by Irving Wolpin, who received U.S. patent # 109,239 (www.google.com/patents/us109239) in 1938." Wikipedia.
Chairs related to Lee's are Gerrit Rietveldt's Red and Blue chair, 1918, and the Wave Hill chair, 1923, an outdoor version of Rietveldt's.
In Canada the Adirondack chair is called the Muskoka chair.
Of interest :- The White Lawn Chair - a chapter in The Uncommon Life of Common Things by Akiko Busch. 2005.
- www.roadsideamerica/tip/30809
- www.roadsideamerica/tip/9573
"This is a book about a chair.
Actually, a clan of chairs,
with ancient ancestors, cousins, spitting images,
and loved ones who have passed on ...."
"The first Adirondack chair was designed by Thomas Lee while vacationing in Westport, New York, in the Adirondack Mountains, in 1903. Needing outdoor chairs for his summer home, he tested his early efforts on his family. After arriving at a final design for a "Westport Plank chair", he offered it to Harry Bunnell, a carpenter friend in Westport in need of a winter income. Bunnell saw the commercial potential of such an item being offered to Westport's summer residents, and, apparently without Lee's permission, filed for and received U.S. patent # 794,777 in 1905 (www.google.com/patents/us794777). Bunnell manufactured hemlock plank "Westport chairs" for the next twenty years, painted in green or medium dark brown, and individually signed by him.
Modern Adirondack chairs usually feature a rounded back and contoured seat, modifications made by Irving Wolpin, who received U.S. patent # 109,239 (www.google.com/patents/us109239) in 1938." Wikipedia.
Chairs related to Lee's are Gerrit Rietveldt's Red and Blue chair, 1918, and the Wave Hill chair, 1923, an outdoor version of Rietveldt's.
In Canada the Adirondack chair is called the Muskoka chair.
Of interest :- The White Lawn Chair - a chapter in The Uncommon Life of Common Things by Akiko Busch. 2005.
- www.roadsideamerica/tip/30809
- www.roadsideamerica/tip/9573