 Clarks Outdoor Chairs "Family Owned & Operated" Hello, my name is CJ Gross, founder and owner of Clarks Outdoor Chairs. Humble beginnings have taken my Adirondack chairs from a garage woodshop to a woodshop located at 1008 East New Circle Road, Lexington, Kentucky 40505. The story goes something like this....... The Beginning In 1996; I was looking for some wooden outdoor chairs and tables for a new deck and screened-in-porch I had built onto my home. My interest in Adirondack chairs and Adirondack furniture occurred while looking at pictures of them when going through all the various outdoor living magazines I had purchased during my project. To me nothing else was even close, as I fell in love with their classic beauty and decided that was what I wanted. I began my search by going to the local stores and looking through catalogs, but all I found were thin fragile Adirondack chairs that all looked the same or ones so expensive they cost more than my new deck. Yes, I was disappointed, but I was also very determined to have some Adirondack chairs. Feeling confident after my successful building project, I decided I would build my own Adirondack chairs myself that would be just as nice as or nicer than any I had seen. I went back to work in my garage workshop using some extra Treated Pine boards from my deck project and a magazine picture of a Chattahoochee Adirondack chair. The chairs I ended up builting were a little different from the magazine picture because the wood I was using was wider and thicker, but it turned out to be a good thing because they ended up being extremely sturdy outdoor chairs. In fact, they are now 12 years old and as solid as ever. Needless to say, I was very proud of the Chattahoochee Adirondack chairs I had built and soon found myself building more for my family and friends as a way to make extra money. You could say this was the beginning of Clarks Outdoor Chairs. What We Belief Today the Adirondack chair market is saturated with an abundance of mass produced chairs from China and Vietnam see"Thrones of Summer". It seems that finding affordable high quality handcrafted Adirondack chairs is not easy as good craftsmanship has taken a back seat to cost driven products. Sadly a good many of these mass produced chairs are sold and people are left disappointed after they only last a year or two or until they get a real good strength and stress test. My belief is most people feel the same way I felt back in 1996; that is they want something better because they are weary of buying poorly made cost driven foreign products. People will buy an affordable quality USA made Adirondack chair designed and built the way the American iconic chair should be if given the opportunity. The Future Now in our eighth year of online sales I am proud to say we have shipped our Adirondack chairs to all 48 U.S. domestic states and five foreign countries. We will continue to offer our chairs as support from people wanting high quality American made Adirondack chairs grows. Our guarantee is we will strive to build our chairs the way we feel they should be built. I hope that you find our Adirondack chairs and Adirondack furniture is exactly what you are looking for and decide to add some to your home. Best Regards, CJ Gross |
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