More robust than the lounge chair, and just as comfortable, this emblematic wooden seat is American, perfect for the garden, the terrace or the beach, is as chic as it is all-terrain.
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This robust wooden seat (most often teak or oiled or white acacia) owes its success to its deep seat and its high back whose perfect inclination guarantees optimal comfort. As a bonus, his flat armrests are large enough to put a book or a cup there. Invented in 1905 under the name of Westport -the seaside resort north of New York where it was born -, then rationalized in 1938, this chair was then called Adirondack, named after the Canadian -American border mountain range where it was made. All -terrain -he will also be perfect on the terrace of a mountain chalet as in a garden or on the sand, facing the ocean -, he has become, over the decades, one of the archetypes of the ‘Art of living from the East American Coast, which also explains its popularity. Today,
Adirondack exists in multiple versions, from the Home Made option, DIY with recovery wood planks, to the most sophisticated version, like the Tectona model produced in 2003 by Alexis de la Falaise, who added him a footrest. As for the Breton cabinetmaker Adironbreizh, he has fun revisiting him endlessly, even imagining a two -seater model.