Clayton Reclining Adirondack Chair Tasha Acacia Adirondack Chair Clayton Folding & Reclining Adirondack Chair Clayton Adirondack Beach Chair 2-Piece Addison Adirondack Chair & Ottoman Set Cleo Porch Rocker in White Lacey Adirondack Chair in Red Lacey Adirondack Chair in White Captiva Patio Counter Stool Mindy Folding Adirondack Chair Crissia Patio Accent Chair Tory Acacia Adirondack Chair Travis Teak Adirondack Chair Danvers Folding Adirondack Chair Adirondack chairs - no piece of outdoor furniture is more reminiscent of summer! One look at these renowned pieces of patio furniture, and it's easy to imagine yourself relaxing by the sea shore sipping on an ice cold beverage. It's not completely clear how these uniquely American outdoor chairs came to be so synonymous with warm-weather leisure, but what is for certain is that a beautiful teak or polywood adirondack chair will add an inestimable degree of style to your deck or patio.
Featuring flat armrests suitable for setting food and beverages on, contoured ergonomic back support perfect for any frame, and unique eco-friendly recycled polywood construction, our Adirondack chairs are fashionable and extremely comfortable features for your own backyard or front porch. And because they are manufactured using reclaimed wood composites and recycled plastics, they are very friendly to our shared environment. Take some weight off your back, rest your body, take in the outdoors - all from the luxurious comfort of your supportive and sturdy adirondack chair. Some of our Adirondack chairs and park benches fold up for easy storage in off-season months, and some even feature steel gliders so you can gently rock back and forth. For a full list of gliding chairs, please check out our gliding chairs page! An ergonomically-minded, space-saving adirondack chair that glides? But beyond just delivering incredible comfort and value, our outdoor Adirondack chairs are specifically designed to be attractive and permanent artistic features in your outdoor landscape.
With a unique look and style all their own, we are sure you will love our gorgeous chairs!Our top-selling Adirondack Chair features a sculpted seat, and curved back slats for maximum comfort! It is made entirely out of 5/4 Western Red Cedar. The parts are held firmly in place using 1 3/4" stainless steel fasteners, and special, elasticized polyurethane adhesive, to keep the chair rigid, even when put through -40 to 120 degree temperature. We use only select Western Red Cedar as our feedstock of choice, since it is simply the finest outdoor building material available! It is light, the resin is poisonous to insects, and the Species features an extremely high thermal factor. Western Red Cedar has 80% of the tensile strength of Oak, and is pound-for-pound stronger than steel! Western Red Cedar is also an appearance-grade wood. When properly coated with a quailty sealer, the grains stand out, providing high aesthetic appeal, and long-lasting durability - even under severe conditions.
It is not uncommon for a properly finished Adirondack Chair to last 100 years, there are many in existence to prove it. Naturally, these furniture pieces often become family heirlooms, and are handed down generation after generation, becoming sought after prizes for collectors. Whenever you invest in one of our pieces, rest assured that you are getting the finest craftsmanship available. That fact is reflected in our warranty, which is very simple. Our Pledge: If for any reason your Adirondack Furniture does not live up to your expectations, let us know, and we will make it right.Now that we've reached asphalt-melting temperatures in New York, it's time to start thinking about breezes skimming across lakes, icy tumblers full of Pimm's Cup, and the rustic luxury of a quiet hour spent in an Adirondack chair. Which for me, design history nerd, means that it's also time to start thinking, what ARE Adirondack chairs anyway, and where did they come from? The first Adirondack chair was created by Thomas Lee around 1903.
Lee was searching in vain for comfortable outdoor furniture for his country cottage in Westport, NY, which is near, you guessed it, the Adirondack mountain region of upstate New York, on the banks of Lake Champlain. According to legend, Lee created several prototypes for chairs made out of just eleven pieces of knot-free wood, all from the same tree. His family — all 22 of them — tested each chair, and ultimately decided upon the gentle recline and wide armrests of what we now know as the Adirondack chair.Lee had a hunting buddy, a local carpenter named Harry Bunnell, who was in need of some off-season income. Lee showed Bunnell the chair and encouraged him to start making them for the locals. Bunnell immediately saw the appeal of Lee's creation. Unbeknownst to Lee, he applied for a patent on the design, which he received in 1905. Bunnell called them Westport Chairs, and he made out of hemlock or hickory, and sold them very profitably for the next twenty years. Lee never received any of the profit from Bunnell's savvy business decision, and there is no evidence that he sought any.
Whether this is admirable or tragic is up for personal interpretation, though it is generally accepted that Bunnell essentially "stole" the design from Lee.In the ensuing 105 years, the chair has been adapted again and again. The back is often raked, made out of between 3 and 7 slats of wood instead of the single plank of the original Westport chair. One explanation for this is the difficulty of finding knot-free wood; a single slab of wood with knots and other irregularities is less comfortable than several slats of the same wood, and considerably more expensive. The chairs are typically now made out of pine and other inexpensive woods. Other variations include material. Design Within Reach, for example, constructs Loll's version out of 100% recycled polyethylene and stainless steel.Despite these adaptations, Adirondack chairs are remarkably recognizable, and unflaggingly popular. Their endurance shouldn't be too much of a mystery: simple, comfortable and unpretentious. Although Thomas Lee created his chair supposedly out of a combination of necessity and economy of materials, there were obviously reasons why the typical late Victorian wrought iron or wicker garden furniture wouldn't do.
His Adirondack chairs carry associations of a vernacular past, like a shared collective memory. In this way, they remind me of Gustav Stickley's Craftsman furniture from the same era (image 4), solid, hand-hewn wood furniture that evokes a folk aesthetic. The years around 1900 were ripe for that sort of folksy, handmade furniture, at least in part because the rate of modernization and urbanization had increased so profoundly that designers and consumers sought a material connection to the past.In our own era, the chairs' association with a vernacular past is compounded by their literally being artifacts from the vernacular past — funny how that works. Today, they are universal signifiers of summertime leisure. Can't you feel the lakeside breeze?3 A replica of Thomas Lee's original Westport chair, via Bessboro Builders; 4 Gustav Stickley's 1901 "Morris" chair, via The Curated Object; 5 Adirondack Chairs around a fire pit, available for $480 at Country Casual; 8 Poppy-colored Adirondack chairs on Governors Island, via the Governors Island Blog;