Omg. HELP. Alright, I have had this chair for some time. The problem is, I can't find ANYTHING like it. It clearly resembles a carter bros chair, however it is not like it with exposed bent wood, although it is still a bentwood chair. So here is the really confusing part. Carter bros was based out of Salisbury NC and a makers tag on the bottom of this says "gem chairs - Salisbury NC". So this is becoming frustrating. Any ideas guys?
check this link....
sounds like you may have an early one...I cant see your pic for some reason....
http://midcenturymodernist.com/2008/furniture-objects/lounge-chairs/scoo...
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from the above link...
Update on Carter Furniture: My dad says this is called the ?scoop chair.? More info to come from Granddad.
03.31.08 ? Carly Albee
Granddad wrote:
These Scoop Chairs are exactly like the ones we designed and made in the late 1950′s and early 1960′s. They are probably ones that we made.
The first design of our Scoop Chair was an all upholstered one. I unfortunately do not have a picture of one in my possession, but I could readily draw it.
After several years of manufacturing the all upholstered one, we designed the one pictured. Your dad, when a teenager, worked in one of the plants that made them. He was a packer, as I recall. We had several different factories making them.
We made hundreds of thousands of them. I recall that the original all-upholstered Scoop Chair originally sold for $19.95 retail. I know the version pictured sold for a higher price ?maybe $24.95. These chairs were sold all over the country, and were one of the most economical
seating buys available at the time.
My dad says that he remembers packing the boxes in college. His job was stuffing the legs of the chair into a plastic bag and then sticking assembly instructions for the user on the outside of the bag.
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