Posted 9 years ago
Soland
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I just recently purchased this chair and estate sale. The tag on it says it was made by the Home Chair Company. I'm struggling to find more information about it
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home chair co. Ronda NC
if you live in N. C. in Ronda, you could check out their library to see if they have any records. About 99% of makers left no information whatsoever.
Thank you for the comment! Unfortunately, I live in the middle of Wyoming and don't know that I will be to North Carolina. Thank you though!
Is that a drawer in the seat?
They have a Facebook page. Submit it there.
https://www.facebook.com/Home-Chair-Company-Ronda-NC-chairs-264131773788998/?sk=posts_to_page
They were also in MORIAH NC. A google search shows chairs by this company are very collectible! The mid-century styles anyway.
It's a sweing chair with drawer:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10206527826945999&set=o.264131773788998&type=3&theater
Sewing Chair...
8/15/1940 a fire destroyed the plant in North Wilkesboro, NC.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/1940-Press-Photo-Fire-destroys-Home-Chair-Company-plant-in-North-Wilkesboro-NC-/371502190711
Home Chair, established 1919 in North Wilkesboro. After the fire, they moved to Ronda to the old abandoned Cotton Mill.
https://books.google.com/books?id=Vz7GAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA438&lpg=PA438&dq=%22home+chair+company%22&source=bl&ots=UNWw96h6R_&sig=JfUCdts-XETxYamRSQwlVmWz8W4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-96z32p3KAhUE6yYKHZ-TDBYQ6AEIMjAE#v=onepage&q=%22home%20chair%20company%22&f=false
Ah- it was owned by William Dudley Moore Sr. (His father?) Home Chair was sold to Burlington in the 70's. Now they are Otto & Moore.
"The Moore’s, have deep roots in the furniture industry. “Around the turn of the 20th century,” Says, Dudley Moore, Jr., “my great grandfather owned a successful chair manufacturing business, Home Chair Company, located in the mountains of North Carolina along with two of his three sons. The company was sold to Burlington industries in the early ‘70s. There wasn’t a job in the business for my father, the youngest son.”
You can probably contact them here for more information:
http://furninfo.com/Furniture%20World%20Articles/3577
Hereisa GREAT resource for future Furniture research! The Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library! From the site:
The Bernice Bienenstock Furniture Library’s resources are available to the public, furniture designers, interior designers, architects and industrial designers; as well as students, professors, researchers and scholars. We are a non-profit organization and provide almost all of our services at no charge.
Our staff will be happy to answer any questions either by email, phone or in person. We have an Advisory Board of professional interior designers, college professors and design industry members who assist us in answering questions on selected topics.
While we can help you with determining the style or period design of your piece of furniture, we are not qualified to give value or appraisals of furniture.
http://www.furniturelibrary.com/inside-bfl/what-we-provide/
Of course they have Facebook & Twitter! And guess what? They are in NORTH CAROLINA!
https://www.facebook.com/BienenstockFurnitureLibrary
Thank you so much for all the information! It is so fun to have a cute little chair from so long ago!