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Eustis Chair designs and manufactures hardwood chairs for libraries, dining halls, clubs, and other high-use spaces. Our chairs are designed for elegance and comfort, and engineered for truly superior durability. They are built by American craftsmen in our US factories, using US-grown hardwoods and other premium-quality materials:

• Traditional stretcher chairs of timeless design, using mortise & tenon joinery and hardwood dowel locking pins to insure durability and longevity.
• Contemporary chairs with clean, simple lines, built with the patented Eustis Joint®, and warranted for a full 20 years.
• Stacking hardwood chairs that offer elegance, comfort, along with a level of durability and functionality that is simply not possible without the Eustis Joint®.
• Total project capability, from design and prototype to delivery and set up in the client location.
• A commitment to complete customer satisfaction

History of Eustis Chair

Fred and William Eustis

Eustis Chair is the product of two different companies, both started in about 1990, one on the east coast and one on the west coast:

Eustis Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1989 in Ashburnham, Massachusetts, by William Eustis, who was joined in 1993 by his son Fred. Father and son worked together for the next 5 years building top-quality dining chairs for Stickley, America's pre-eminent manufacturer of Arts & Crafts style furniture. After Bill's retirement in 1997, the company continued to manufacture chairs for Stickley, and Fred started to turn his attention to the design and manufacture of a new line of chairs that would carry the Eustis Chair name.

Robert H. Eustis

Eustis Designs, Inc. was founded in 1990 in Palo Alto, California, by Engineering Professor Robert Eustis, soon after retiring from Stanford University. Bob developed and patented a remarkable joinery system using concealed steel rods and aerospace-grade epoxies. This technique allowed Eustis Designs to build hundreds of elegant chairs for universities and libraries without a single joint failure. Fred learned about Eustis Designs in 1999, and soon acquired the patent rights to the technology we now call the Eustis JointŪ

Eustis Chair is the trade name we now use for the business that emerged in the new millennium. The new company created a line of elegant hardwood chairs that are engineered to withstand decades of abuse in libraries, dining halls, clubs, and other high-use spaces. From 2000 to 2010, Eustis Chair added dozens of new designs, and completed over 100 projects for well known institutions all over the US. More and more architects, designers, and institutional buyers now recognize the Eustis Chair name, and know that it stands for distinctive hardwood chairs that truly meet the test of time.

And yes, Fred, Bill, and Bob Eustis are related; they are 7th cousins, direct descendants of William Eustis, born in 1661 in what is now Chelsea, Massachusetts.

Eustis Chair P.O. Box 842 Ashburnham, MA 01430

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