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Adirondack Chair Types

Adirondack Furniture

Adirondack chairs

Adirondack chairs with their simple, sturdy design will enhance your deck, patio or garden. Popular resort-style Adirondack furniture is always functional and fashionable,  yet  relaxed.

Various functions

The Adirondack design lives on and today you can find a huge selection of this style of furniture, loveseats, chaise lounges, children’s furniture and more. Adirondack furniture is the stylish foundation for patios, porches, and cabins, as well as bed and breakfast inns, resorts and retreats.

Adirondack Chair Types

Wood types

Wooden Adirondack chairs come in cypress, pine, mahogany, cedar and other types of wood. Choosing your Adirondack chair is often simply a matter of determining  the type of wood you prefer. Traditionally cedar or pine were used for construction. Cedar being more durable and resistant to the elements, but pine offering a less expensive, though less durable alternative.

Resin Adirondack ChairsSynthetic Chairs

Recently, an increasingly popular addition to Adirondack furniture design is the plastic chair. These chairs are made from incredibly strong and solid recycled plastic polymers. They do not rust, warp, crack or rot, and often the material looks like real wood. Impenetrable to bugs and moisture, recycled plastic Adirondack furniture will not become weakened or moldy, even after many years of use. UV (ultraviolet light) resistant colors include dark teak, white, sandy beige and hunter green.

Enduring Popularity

Adirondack, or Muskoka chairs, are recognized the world over for their comfort and strength. They are mainstays in outdoor furniture and have endured the passing years to become  timeless favorites.

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Origins of the Adirondack Chair

 

Adirondack chairs, also known as Muskoka chairs; are a type of chair favored in rural, outdoor settings. They were developed in 1903 by Thomas Lee who needed outdoor chairs at his summer home in Westport, New York. The name Muskoka was adopted from the municipality of Muskoka, Ontario, a cottage country area north of Toronto.

Adirondack chair

Originally, the Adirondack chair was made with eleven pieces of wood cut from a single board. It had a straight back and seat, which were set at a slant for better sitting on the steep mountain inclines of the area. It also featured wide armrests, which are the hallmark of the Adirondack chair.

After his final design of the “Westport plank chair,” Lee offered it to Harry Bunnell, a carpenter friend in Westport. Bunnell quickly realized the chair was the perfect item to sell to Westport’s summer residents, and apparently without asking Lee’s permission, he filed for and received patent #794,777 in 1905. Bunnell manufactured his plank chairs for the next twenty years. His “Westport chairs” were all signed and made of hemlock in green or medium dark brown. The modern name refers to the Adirondack Mountains near Westport.

Modern Day Adirondack Chairs

Today’s Adirondack chairs usually feature a rounded back and contoured seat. The style has also been translated to other pieces of furniture, from gliders to love seats. Some modern Adirondack chairs are made out of plastic lumber or engineered wood instead of wood. They are commonly made as school projects around the world.

Recently Adirondack chairs have become popular as outdoor seating at cafés because food and beverages can be set on the flat armrests, making it possible to provide individual seating without tables.

In the southern U.S. “Adirondacking” is a term used to describe public picnics at which people sit primarily in Adirondack chairs. It is also used to describe the use of public Adirondack chair displays outside home-improvement and grocery stores as a leisure break while shopping.

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