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Maureen
Happy New Year All,
I will be in the market for dining room furniture in the Spring and saw a Nichols & Stone chair that was the most comfortable yet. I know they have recently become Stickley but wondered if quality was TRULY the same and made in USA...won't settle for outsourced products again. I also wanted Duane's opinion on that line and if you deal in Nichols & Stone. Thanks ahead Duane!
Ho boy, I'm on the spot! I've never carried Nichols and Stone (who have gone out of business) because I think (honestly) their chairs were clunky and not properly made for longevity. The used glue socket joinery in their chairs when is essentially drilling a hole, filling it with glue, and pounding in the legs and spindles. When the chair becomes stressed with use, the glue bond eventually breaks and .... the chairs wobble. They also used plank seats rather than scooped, which means most their chairs have a pitched seat angle, rather than a correctly done deeply scooped seat sitting on a flat plane to the floor. The pitch back chairs are not a comfortable for any length of time.
Stickley is going to make the Nichols and Stone line in both Vietnam and its New York plant. What goes to which factory I have no idea.
Duane Collie
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