Cherner Chair  

Judith Miller's book The Chair claims Plycraft ceased production of the Cherner Chair in the early 1970s?

Judith Miller's book The Chair claims that Paul Goldman ceased production of the Cherner chair in the early 1970s, but I seem to remember the option of ordering either the Plycraft wider-waisted version of the Cherner, or what was called by Plycraft the "original Rockwell" - and this was throughout the 1980s well until Plycraft's demise. Any info on this? Was the original design tweaked enough that the Cherner estate no longer considered what Plycraft was making to be a Cherner design infringement? Here's the quote from page 237:

"Although a settlement was reached, in the form of royalty payments, by the early 1970s Plycraft had stopped production, and for more than 20 years the Cherner was rarely found outside of design museums and the homes of a few aficionados."

I remember seeing these chairs, new, for sale in NYC in the mid 1980s, although they might have been the thick-waisted version.

any info?