Adirondack chair

The Adirondack garden chair (English: Adirondack Chair ) is a widespread practice in the United States garden chair.

Origin

The home of this chair is in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York. He is in the U.S. and Canada prevalent ( there under the name Muskoka chair ).

The chair is used for more than 100 years in seaside resorts on the hotel terraces and private gardens. His design mixed chair and couch. Characteristic are the dropping back seat with deep seating position, a mostly straight, backward inclined backrest and wide armrests that provide ample space for the parking of drinks. The original design of the chair Thomas Lee is credited with the timbered itself in 1902 for a family reunion on Lake Champlain simple seating for guests. A friendly carpenter named Harry Bunnel received from him the design and reported it in 1905 as " Westport Chair" for a patent. Original chairs from this time achieve antiques prices of about U.S. $ 1,000 today. The Adirondack chair is now in the United States as a symbol of nature.