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Yale University enjoys working with Eustis Chair, and the feeling is mutual. For this project with Yale University, Eustis Chair paired up with Chicago based HBRA Architects. Yale University knew they wanted custom made chairs for their major renovation of the Bass Library, formerly known as the Cross Campus Library. After researching custom chair companies, Yale University chose Eustis Chair.
Harvard-Westlake School is a well-known private school in Los Angeles, California. They have 1600 students on campus from 157 zip codes. With over 100 on-campus clubs and activities as well as an impressive list of alumni, it’s easy to see why so many people want to attend. Eustis Chair designed the Westlake Contemporary Chair for Harvard-Westlake School. They are not the only ones who love our Westlake Chair for it’s contemporary chair design.
The Emma Willard School in Troy, New York, has educated girls for more than 200 years. That’s quite a legacy of learning. The school is a leading college prep boarding and day school. The school has empowered girls to shape the world around them since 1814. What an impressive journey. We love to make stacking wooden chairs for such great institutions.
According to their website: “The Harvard Faculty Club is dedicated to offering quality meeting, conference, function, dining, and lodging services to a broad constituency including Harvard Faculty, alumni/ae, professional staff, long service employees, members of the Cambridge business community, and their guests.” We are delighted they purchased Harvard faculty club chairs from Eustis Chair.”
Chubb Hotel and Conference Center, in LaFayette Hill, Pennsylvania is a club of discerning taste. They are often hosts to numerous wedding, Bar and Bat Mitzvahs, as well as milestone event celebrations. The space has 42 conference rooms where you can free yourself from outside distractions. These spaces accommodate anywhere between 5 and 500 guests. With over 50,000 feet of meeting and conference space, the center has to order a lot of furniture to keep the place, well, furnished. We love making Merrimac quality hotel chairs for spaces like this one.
The HNA Palisades Premier Conference Center, formerly the IBM Executive Conference Center, is in Palisades, NY. The space plays host to a myriad of weddings and other wonderful events. The Center in on 106 acres of meticulously landscaped grounds. The center is close enough to New York City, but still far enough away to catch your breath. In short, this location is excellent. We love that they purchased our Bainbridge Stacking Chairs for their space.
Eustis Chair designed the Orono chair to be our lightest weight stacking wood chair in the line. The chair weighs in at just under 14 pounds per chair. Despite the light weight, the Orono is a strong chair. It comes with an unmatched 20 year warranty against joint failure, thanks to our patented Eustis Joint®. This lightweight stacking wood chair is a powerhouse.
Library renovations are a core part of our business. Why? Because every good library needs comfortable yet durable seating. What’s better than curling up with a good book in a comfortable chair? Furthermore, libraries are some of the highest use spaces. Chairs with durable joinery is a must. Most cheap wooden chairs are made with less durable joinery. However, those chairs tend to break after only a few years of use. We craft our chairs with steel rods and reinforce them with retrograde epoxy for added stability. In fact, we back our chairs containing Eustis Joints with a 20 year warranty against joint failure. Actually, in most cases, the hardwood will break before the joints do (decades down the line).
The second of two batches of Skillman chairs was delivered today to Swarthmore College. Furthermore, the second installation was 100 chairs to the Cornell Science Library at Swarthmore College. Two weeks ago we delivered 55 Skillman chairs to Beverly Hills Public Library. This classic Arts & Crafts style chair design was developed two years ago for the Detroit Public Library’s Skillman Library Branch and has become a mainstay in our line of traditional library chairs.
Bids were awarded today for 184 Jenkins chairs to be manufactured for the expansion/renovation of the Wheaton Public Library. Furthermore, Wheaton Public Library is located in Wheaton, IL. Library personnel first saw the Jenkins Chair at the 2005 ALA conference. They loved the chairs’ simple elegance. Later, they asked their architects, Dewberry, to look into this unique chair. After several months of deliberations, the durable library chairs were finally ordered this week.
The Merrimac arm chair leads the industry in both durability and stackability. These components make it the best stacking wooden arm chair available. It aligns perfectly with our mission–to create the most durable, sustainable, and comfortable hardwood chairs on the market. Our Merrimac arm chair stacks up to ten chairs high, and staff can easily move the chairs our custom chair transporter. Our stacking chairs are some of our most popular chairs. Stacking chairs provide ease in storage, set up, and take down for events for facility staff. Furthermore, stacking chairs have become an extremely popular option because they are both convenient and extremely elegant.
The Cotswold region in England is known for its rolling hills and natural beauty. Furthermore, we believe that nature beauty inspired the original chair design over 200 years ago. This antique reproduction chair has been engineered for institutional. We loved it so much that we couldn’t help but incorporate the original design in our very own line of chairs. Thanks to our elite mortise and tenon joint technology, our chair is extremely durable. In addition, our with the mortise and tenon chairs come with come with an unheard of ten Year Warranty against joint failure. We pride ourself our making the most durable and sustainable chairs on the market.
Wood Bar Stool The Novato wood bar stool is designed with classic Arts and Crafts chair styling to match our popular Novato chair. We engineered our Novato chair and bar stools with the same mortise and tenon joint technology. Because we have so much confidence
Five years ago Harvard Business School opened The Spangler Center. The center featured an elegant Grillroom in the 1920’s style of the original HBS campus. The Windsor-style chairs selected for the facility did not hold up. In fact, the chairs were breaking at the joints and hardwood. Therefore, HBS decided to replace them with our Tall Edison chairs. Eustis Chair built 650 of our similar, but shorter Edison chairs for Harvard University’s Annenberg dining hall. The dining hall is located in Memorial Hall and was built in 1995. Furthermore, all but 30 of our old chairs are still in service after 11 years. We are extremely proud of our chairs and their ability to withstand daily use by 1,200 college freshmen. Our Tall Edison chairs were the perfect Harvard dining hall chairs.
Stacking Chairs are our bread and butter. In fact, our company is unique because we re some of the only vendors that make stacking hardwood chairs. Most institutions that desire stacking chairs must chose metal or plastic chairs. Furthermore, these chairs just do not have the same elegance or charm as hardwood. We created stacking chairs so that institutions could have it all. Stacking chairs are the perfect chair for storage, set up, and take down for events. This makes facility managers’ lives way easier. Our patented joinery makes the stacking option possible. To make our joints the strongest on the market, we use steel rods for stability and inject each with retrograde epoxy for reinforcement.
Sustainability is extremely important to us. Our craftspeople make all of our chairs in the US. Furthermore, all of our hardwood is sustainability grown and shipped to us. We believe in being kind to the earth and we love using sustainable materials. In fact, our mission is to create elegant, sustainable and comfortable chairs for high use spaces. What is a more high use space that a library? Libraries house hundreds and thousands of people in a single day. Therefore, libraries need to be able to rely in their furniture to hold up. With daily wear and tear in mind, we create our joinery to be the strongest on the market. We craft our chairs with steel rods for stability and reinforce each with retrograde epoxy.
When Saint Mary’s College of California’s planners decided to renovate their main dining hall, and we were some of the firs people to they called. The beloved Oliver Hall was a little outdated and needed an upgrade. The planners and committee members insisted on wooden stacking chairs,. However, the wanted something that would upgrade the look and feel of their older facility. The old chairs were falling apart. In addition, the joints of the old chairs were causing the chairs to break. Luckily, we craft our chairs with the best joinery on the market. We add steel rods to the legs and tension points of our chairs for added stability. In addition, we inject each tension point with retrograde epoxy for reinforcement.
Maxwell Library is one of the libraries at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts. It is often used by students for research and studying. Studying is an important part of the college experience. When students study, they want to be comfortable. For the ultimate comfort, there is no better choice than hardwood chairs. Hardwood chairs are great for back pain. No student wants to experience back pain while they are trying to learn new information. That would be a huge distraction. Luckily, our Eustis chairs are great for back pain. That means students are able to comfortably study longer. Indeed, more time in the library often produces the ultimate payoff: a college degree. Maxwell Library knew who to call for their renovation, Eustis Chair. They decided to order Charleston library chairs from Eustis Chair.