Comments on: Vintage style patio furniture

By: Max

Max — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:26:38 +0000

do you know where to buy the aluminum frame (woven nylon I guess) webbed rocking chairs.

By: YarmouthCindy

YarmouthCindy — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:37:09 +0000

My neighbor has these chairs in yellow outside her 1961 Cape. I’m pretty sure hers are the real thing.

By: Mandi H.

Mandi H. — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:35:52 +0000

Love this idea!! I’ve been trying to decide what to put on my back patio and the vintage set would look awesome in my ‘56 bungalow!

By: Elaine

Elaine — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:50:53 +0000

I have a set of four of these on my front porch, bright red. I got them on eBay, and they are still up, Auction # 130295921388. They were just the perfect look for my 1964 wing colonial, and they fit the 6 foot deep front porch too. I was having a time finding anything that would fit and look right.

By: Joe

Joe — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 03:31:44 +0000

Something else to note. These have a tendency to rust around the bolt holes. it might be worth it to shoot some canned clear coat over the bolt holes before assembling.

By: Anita

Anita — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 02:28:26 +0000

The Jetson-esq umbrellas at Disneyland were of a PVC type frame with canvas material as the shade. I think the ones in the link above are a metal frame with canvas shade. I’m sure they will sail through the air quite nicely also if they should come loose. Love the look but not the price at all, so I won’t have to worry about them frisbee-ing themselves.
Also the other link to the motel chairs in my comment – they have the 2 seat glider!

By: tina of forrestina vintage

tina of forrestina vintage — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:46:48 +0000

Hi–what a fun set of furniture! Just sold ours this spring and maybe we’ll go vintage inspired for a new set?! I just discovered your blog today and am having a great time poking around…thanks!

By: pam kueber

pam kueber — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 22:24:43 +0000

LRE King, thank you for that info. Am I right in guessing the vintage ones were also more heavy duty? And when you say the tubing was single piece not modular, do you mean – the tubing was inextricably welded to the chair (rather than screwed in when you bought it?)

By: LRE King

LRE King — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:00:57 +0000

Just a couple of notes. Many of the original chairs in this style had the tubing as a single piece, not modular (probably done this way to facilitate shipping and storage). Many of them also had holes in the seats to prevent water from pooling.

By: Palm Springs Stephan

Palm Springs Stephan — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:46:54 +0000

My grandparents had a set like that in the front yard of their very rural home on Arkansas (1 mile down a dirt road). They were a shade of turquoise green, and so badly oxidized that if you sat in them, the seat of your pants would come away with green paint dust on them. But they also had a 2-seat glider that matched. Too bad C&B does not sell that as well. I’d love to have the entire set.

And we have Anita’s “Jetson-esque” umbrellas by our pools at my condo complex. One caveat about those: if the rope webbing that holds the disk in the ring starts to rot in the weather, the disk can come loose. That happened here during a windstorm last Christmas Eve. One of the aluminum disks, 5 feet in diameter, went flying Frisbee-like through the bedroom window of a unit and ended up on the bed! It might have been funny if not for the danger that someone could have been killed. Needless to say, I personally re-roped all of our umbrellas immediately!