I know the version pictured sold for a higher price –maybe $24.95. I recall that the original all-upholstered Scoop Chair originally sold for $19.95 retail. We had several different factories making them. Your dad, when a teenager, worked in one of the plants that made them. I unfortunately do not have a picture of one in my possession, but I could readily draw it.Īfter several years of manufacturing the all upholstered one, we designed the one pictured. The first design of our Scoop Chair was an all upholstered one. These Scoop Chairs are exactly like the ones we designed and made in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s. Update: Carly Albee, whose grandfather owned Carter Furniture when this chair was made has identified it as the “Scoop Chair”. Until then, we’ll just admire its simple elegance. If anyone has more information about this chair, Jeff, Travis, Angela, and myself will be most grateful for it. Sent to my email box today from Angela Hamilton. So we know at least one manufacturer - but who designed this little beauty? The others I’ve seen have a single cushion, as mentioned by the Carter lady. Carter Furniture has no records on this chair. Also discovered it was made in their original plant behind some VA Hospital in town. Woman who answered was kind enough to walk the floor with this photo and found a 48yr employee who said she remembers this design being discontinued around the time she started in 1958. Salisbury North Carolina” and he even managed to get a hold of the company who is still in business:Ĭalled Carter Furniture in Salisbury, NC. It is tagged “#200 Chair by Carter Brothers, Inc. Jeff Carvalho submitted another specimen to our MCM Interiors group on Flickr. 2005 and others have seen that price in local stores.

It’s a small, low chair, made of a single piece of bent plywood with dowel legs.ĮBay seller mix-mod sold this one for $500 in Nov. At least three readers over the last few weeks have asked me to identify their specimen of this little guy from the late ’50s. More often than not, I’m not very helpful because I still only know the stuff everyone else knows. Once in a while I get a request to identify a piece of vintage furniture.

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