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The metal lawn chair goes by many nicknames: the Shellback, the Tulip chair, the Clamshell, the Motel Chair, and the Bouncer. But even if none of those ring a bell, you’ve probably seen one. They're the kind that might have been in a corner of your childhood best friend’s garage or your great-aunt’s lake house. "It's just a traditional chair," Torrans says in a North Texas accent. "It's a singular item. They're like hamburgers and hot dogs. You don’t have to teach anybody what they are." Torrans became fascinated with the history of the steel lawn chair after cobbling together his own version of it in the early 2000s. He engineered a mixture between the classic wooden Adirondack chair and an old steel chair frame, and was surprised at the reaction. "People kept coming up to me and acting like they already knew the chairs,” he recalled. “There was something familiar to them." Soon, Torrans and his wife, Kathy, began manufacturing their version of the old steel lawn chairs that he remembered from his youth, and Torrans began researching their origins by flipping through archives of advertisements.
From his research, he published a book, A History of the Metal Lawn Chair. As best as he can tell, what we know as the metal lawn chair began in the '30s. "Somewhere around '35 to '38, there were some flat metal chairs in a metal frame. They didn't really have a design to them, but they had the basic shape of the metal lawn chair." One possible source of the metal lawn chair as we know it is a design by Leo Jiranek, an industrial and furniture designer who contributed concepts to the likes of Ethan Allen and, in the 1960s, was the president of the Jiranek School of Furniture Design and Technology in Manhattan. During the course of his research, Torrans found a hand-drawn print that Jiranek did in the late ‘30s that came close to what we know of as the classic metal lawn chair. The rise of the lawn chair has much to do with the growth of the suburbs after the Second World War, when the 1944 GI bill and other legislation made owning a single family home with a backyard much more accessible to middle-class Americans.
With the increase in lawns came an increase in demand for lawn furniture. Into that gap stepped the first major player in the world of metal lawn chairs. The Warmack Company, founded by sheet metal fabricator and Arkansas manufacturer Ed Warmack, began making steel gliders, tables, and lawn chairs in the late 1940s and early 1950s, and swiftly turned into the largest metal outdoor furniture manufacturer in the USA, with some of their lines carried exclusively by Sears. Then, in 1954, Flanders Industries, founded by Dudley Flanders, bought the Warmack Company, and continued making those same steel chairs until 1996, when the market became dominated by plastic-based lawn furniture. Torrans picked up pretty close to where Flanders left off, making vintage-inspired steel furniture from 2002 on. Their models include the classic rounded-back chair, as well as the Thunderbird, modeled on a Sears-exclusive chair that, as Torrans says, "is just dripping with that old-school look." What makes the metal lawn chair an American classic is its longevity and ubiquity, but also that it stands out in a sea of other options.