Adirondack chairs
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Name (Latin)
Adirondack chairs
Other forms of name
Cape Cod chairs
Catskill chairs
Comstock chairs
Kennebunkport chairs
Laurentian chairs
Muskoka chairs
Plank chairs, Westport
Westport chairs
Westport plank chairs
See Also From tracing topical name
Lawn chairs
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q357530
Library of congress:
sh2012001141
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Mack, D. The Adirondack chair, 2008:pp. 82-83, 87 (... the Adirondack chair has appealed to the entrepreneur. ... [A] carpenter on Block Island, Rhode Island, has been making "the Block Island sittin' chair" for years. Antiques dealer John Wicks ... can remember that when he was a boy in the early 1930s these chairs, then called "the Catskill chair," would be brought through town for sale ... . What's so interesting about this chair is its many identities. It seems to take on the names of the places it's found. A Westport chair seen in Delaware became the "Comstock chair" of Rome, New York. The story repeats itself. ... The Muskoka chair. It was in the early 1930s when a round-backed version of the Adirondack chair appeared in the Muskokas, a resort area on the lakes in northern Ontario. ... This chair style is still very popular in Canada and very quickly made its way across the border ... . Today that style is [also] called the "Kennebunkport chair," named after the resort town in Maine)
- Random House Webster's unabridged dictionary, 2011(Adirondack chair -- a sturdy armchair for outdoor use, made of wide wooden slats, with a sloping back and a seat often slanting down toward it)
- Web. 3(adirondack chair, often cap. A -- a wooden slant-back lawn chair the seat of which usu. is higher at the front than at the back)
- Adirondack or Muskoka chairs, what's the difference, via WWW, Apr. 5, 2012(In 1905, Harry C. Bunnell of Westport, New York, received a patent for "a new and useful improvement in chairs." ... Thus was born the first Westport chair. ... [T]he design actually came from Thomas Lee, ... who called his invention a Westport plank chair ... . [In] the Adirondack Mountains ... there was a convalescent home for tuberculosis patients, where caregivers figured the chairs would be perfect for guests to sit out on and enjoy the recuperative powers of the fresh mountain air. Thus the term "Adirondack chair" was born. ... Soon, the term Muskoka chair was born. ... What's the difference between a Muskoka and an Adirondack? The simple answer is: Nothing. ... [I]t seems that any variation between [the] chairs is based on a manufacturer's preference, rather than a difference in the official definition)
- Laurentian Outdoor Furniture WWW homepage, Apr. 5, 2012(The Laurentian is part of an outdoor chair type which can sometimes be known by different names. Chairs of this design are often referred to as Laurentian Chairs, Adirondack Chairs, Muskoka Chairs, Cape Cod Chairs)
- Adirondack Chair Online WWW home page, Apr. 5, 2012:Adirondack chairs (Adirondack chairs are also known as Cape Cod chairs and Muskoka chairs in different areas of the world)
- Google search, Apr. 5, 2012("Adirondack chairs" -- 1,460,000 hits; "Cape Cod chairs" -- 110,000 hits; "Muskoka chairs" -- 83,000 hits; "Catskill chairs" -- 14,800 hits; "Westport chairs" -- 8,660 hits; "Westport plank chairs" -- 1,680 hits; "Comstock chairs" -- 94 hits; "Kennebunkport chairs" -- 74 hits; "Laurentian chairs" -- 60 hits; "Block Island sittin' chairs" -- 0 hits)