Featured Keep the Brown Furniture Comin’(Chair)

Guessing another $15 chair...which I’m good with because I like these and they’re nice and solid(when chairs creak under me I get nervous). Just wanted to be sure. Any info is appreciated.
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Another nice chair alright. Craftsman, early 20th century, oak. Just ask Ikea if THEIR chairs will be around after 100 years.

 

Nice solid dining chair, probably from the 1930s-40s.

 

Very Cool!
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Side note: my neighbor just remodeled and spent a boat load at IKEA. I wonder what his “wobble factor” is going to be in 10 years.

 

He'll have new chairs in five. Ikea has a design life of about that, the last I looked.

 

You can tell somebody is really into furniture construction when they take the seat of a chair out and show it only from the bottom.

Is the seat upholstery replaced? Anyway, it's a very nice chair.

 

IKEA doesn't want their chairs to be around more than 5 or 10 years. You can pick up nice solid early 20th century chairs all day long for $5.00 here in Iowa.

 

I like antique brown furniture, it's been around for 100+ years and if taken care of will still be around long after we have gone

 

Very nice!

 

Those tacks look original, or at least pretty darned old. If the seat cover is vinyl it's been redone. If that's leather, it's the original. If vinyl, you have my blessing to have at!

 

They’re vinyl.

 

I thought it would be; it looks like some stuff my grandfather used on furniture back in the 40s. I'd imagine the original was leather.

 

Wouldn’t be surprised if my grandpa did these in the 40’s as well! He was more into working “the land” but when he needed to save a buck he was pretty handy. His brother in law(my great uncle?) was a carpenter and made a bookshelf and dresser for my dad around that time which I still have. I know upholstery and carpentry are different trades but he could’ve made short work of something simple like this. The story goes that he was employed at the Winchester house for many years....ahhh stories!

 

Actually, I think the brown vinyl doesn't look bad.
Certainly easy to clean spills if at a kitchen table with kids.