About Adirondack

This deck chair is called the Adirondack and was named after the region in northeastern New York where the original was made. The predecessor to the Adirondack chairs looked a little different and was designed by Thomas Lee in 1903. However, it was the carpenter Harry Bunnell who patented the chair.

He vacationed in Westport in the heart of the Adirondack Mountains and made a pair of chairs for his vacation home.

The chair brings to mind marine environments, perhaps on a luxury cruiser, but it was made by Thomas Lee for his vacation home.

In a benevolent gesture, Lee shared his design with a handsome carpenter friend and hunting buddy, Harry Bunnell. Unbeknownst to Lee, Bunnell took the design and received a patent for what he called the Westport chair in 1905. Over the next 25 years, Bunnell capitalized on his friend's design, and Adirondack chairs began appearing on porches and in gardens from coast to coast and abroad.

It got its name from the Adirondack Mountains in northeastern New York.