Eustis News
June 15, 2018
2018 ALA Annual Conference Exhibition
Next week we'll be exhibiting at the American Library
Association (ALA) annual conference in New Orleans, LA! This will now be 15
years since we began presenting at the ALA Annual Conference in 2003. We have
tens of thousands of our chairs in America's diverse libraries, where they will
last for more than twenty years in their reading and study areas. Almost half
of all of our chair designs are specifically geared to library uses, including
a variety of historical styles and antique reproductions that can be customized
upon request.
Come find us at booth 2659 during the Exhibition, where you
can try out some of our most popular models and discuss your upcoming library
design plans. Whether you're ready to buy furniture or still in the planning
stages, we can lend our expertise in the world of sustainable, stacking, and
comfortable hardwood chairs. Can't wait until the conference? Contact us
anytime either online or by phone at 978-827-3103. See you soon in the Big
Easy!
June 8, 2018
Lake Geneva Country Club Receives Almost 300 Merrimac Chairs
A few weeks ago we delivered hundreds of Merrimac
chairs to the Lake Geneva Country Club in southeastern Wisconsin. The
club is known as the oldest golf club in the Midwest still on its founding
site, which was established at the turn of the century in 1895. It is well-known
for hosting the annual Men's Golf Invitational, cited as the oldest consecutive
invitational in the United States that is specifically a match-play tournament.
Its namesake city is ranked as one of the best lake towns in North America, especially
renowned for its notable mansions connected with Chicago elite.
This very traditional club needed new chairs for their 100-year-old
clubhouse dining room, replacing former seating that was in need of upgrades. For
Lake Geneva’s board members, an essential highlight of the Merrimac model was
its ability to stack up to eight chairs high. With limited storage options it’s
Eustis Chair to the rescue! After the installation the board let us know of the
warm praises that their membership gave to the new seating, noting the superb
comfort they now enjoy during the Club’s main meals and special events. The Merrimac
is customized to be light and easy to handle for their facilities staff, making
it all the more desirable in dining rooms and halls throughout America. We’re
pleased with the impact and look forward to future installs throughout the
Midwest.
June 1, 2018
Council Room Arm Chairs Arrive for Richland Country Club
Nashville’s Richland Country Club has unveiled the
first phase of a $20 million renovation, in which Eustis Chair figures with a
delivery of seventy Council
Room armchairs. Richland traces its beginning to the turn of the twentieth century,
and strikes an excellent balance between tradition and modernity with their
newest upgrades. From nineteenth century artifacts to commemorations of its
past presidents, this club community heartily embraces its history and stands
proud as a premier organization.
The
operations team chose Harris Interiors
to spearhead the modernization whilst maintaining its timeless ambiance. For
their clubhouse – which sees multiple banquets take place every year – it was
essential to find a chair with both sophistication and stackability. The Council
Room armchair was the perfect answer to their needs, with spectacular comfort
for their patrons and ease of transport for their hospitality staff. These new chairs
came with custom staining to perfectly match the rest of the decoration,
crafting an enduring atmosphere for the best that Tennessee has to offer. We’re
pleased to continue our relationships with institutions throughout the
Southeast, where our unmatched seating options enhance the genteel charm of its
most respected institutions.
May 24, 2018
Nautical Virginian and Jenkins Chairs for the Corinthian Yacht Club
Two models of Eustis Chair – the Virginian side chair and the Jenkins
barstool – have made their way to the Corinthian
Yacht Club in Marblehead, Massachusetts. The Club was first organized in
the nineteenth century, where it took up residence on the Marblehead Harbor
just north of Boston. Its members enjoy incredible sailing and racing events
each year, along with further athletic and social activities for their
close-knit community.
Their members deserved elegant and comfortable seating, but such
seating also needed to stack and fit around their 60 inch tables. The Virginian
came into play with stackability and a seat width smaller than 17 inches - a
must for 10-60 use. The Club’s operation team also chose the Jenkins
barstool for the unveiling of their new Harbor Bar. We shipped hundreds of
chairs last month to fill their renovated dining room, which arrived just in
time for their first
event of the season. Thanks to the overall design that Eustis Chair
complements, CYC’s Commodore considers it the most beautiful bar on the Eastern
seaboard.
Both the Virginian and the Jenkins barstool have found homes in
premier clubs and dining spaces across the country, and our latest installation
of both at CYC will remain for decades to come. Many thanks to the excellent designers and operations team for their collaboration on this project!
April 27, 2018
Custom Chairs for The Lawrenceville School in New Jersey
April 19, 2018
University Club Chairs for the Club at Carlton Woods
We recently delivered over 150 University Club chairs to the
Club at Carlton Woods in the
Greater Houston area. In the twenty years since its inception, the Club is one
of the most distinguished in Texas and well-known throughout the country as one of the Platinum Clubs of America. As a
crown jewel of American golf clubs and courses they required only the best for
their exclusive community, with the additional convenience of a chair that they
can stack if needed. It's with our line that they got the best with our proprietary
Eustis Joint, superior comfort, and exquisite handcrafted design.
The Club's general manager has told us how much they love to
walk into the room that houses our chairs - the associates and members are just
as thrilled with the purchase choice! Carlton Woods now marks our tenth major
installation of the University
Club chair since its introduction in 2009, with another project already in
production via our US factory. Its woodworking completes the design aesthetic
of palatial-like spaces, with its stackability a major perk unique to Eustis
Chair.
April 3, 2018
Eustis Chairs for Gothic Revival Halls
At Eustis Chair we
create hardwood chairs best tailored for your high-use space. Our line has a
variety of models customized for certain architectural styles, and we'd like to
highlight these styles as a starting point for deciding which chair is best for
your institution. For many colleges and universities, that aesthetic lies
in Neo-Gothic – or
Gothic Revival – architecture, first appearing in the 19th century and
continuing into today.
This style is arguably
most represented on America's college campuses, with countless higher education
institutions including such buildings. It's become so prominent that it has its
own distinction as “Collegiate Gothic,” a subgenre of the original 1800’s
movement.
Today, the design
touches of neo-Gothicism are easily identifiable. Stone exteriors give way to
hardwood ceilings or buttresses, with long and narrow windows letting little
natural light pass through. In its place, heavy chandeliers descend from above
to highlight pointed arches, rising towers, and intricate detail throughout the
interior. Neo-Gothic structures impart some sense of Old World charm, and, as a
standard horror setting, an airy thrill or mystery to boot.
Some of the foremost
examples above include our past customers. St. Mary’s College of California is
home to Oliver Hall (top), a Gothic facility originally built in 1928.
Medievalesque artwork adorns the walls that surround the main floor, packed
with long tables not unlike those used for candlelit banquets of the past.
The Burton-Judson
Courts at the University of Chicago (center) hosts vaulted ceilings with
elaborate motifs engraved in high wood panels. Its dining hall includes soaring
arches that tapers to a point between the expansive windowpanes, emphasizing
the open atmosphere devoid of further partitions.
At Towson University
is a slightly older Gothic hall, where the Newell dining hall (bottom) was
originally built at the onset of World War I. Elevated iron chandeliers glimmer
above carved ornamentation gracing the room sides, with a raised platform that
looks out to the regal space below.
We have worked with
all three to construct fitting Gothic chairs for these premier spaces. Out of
the 90+ chairs in our line, there are five that best embody the spirit of the
Gothic Revival:
The Cross Campus is our premier Gothic chair.
The smooth, modest finials at the top draw the eye to the rails of the chair,
centered by an archway that mimics the style’s distinctive doorway curvature.
The stretchers, which are the horizontal beams near the bottom of the chair,
also harken back to this design style – with the Eustis Joint these stretchers
are not necessary for support, but we included them to complete the overall
look.
The Taft was specifically designed for a
Gothic dining hall, with a bonus as one of our stackable chairs. The back is
centered by a wide banister that finishes in a slight arch, with a subtle
carving on the top slat for a clean, refined touch. While it can be appropriate
in a number of settings, it is best at home in stony corridors rife with
historical allure.
The Skillman embraces a stark, austere
appearance while retaining both comfort and durability. Like all of our
traditionally built chairs, the Skillman is engineered with our special “box
construction” configuration, using oversized mortise and tenon joints with
reinforcing dowel pins to create a chair that will endure for generations.
The Burton Judson was crafted to enhance the
elegance and functionality of Gothic halls for decades to come. Like the Cross
Campus, its back rails were framed to emulate the elongated windows prevalent
in Gothic chambers worldwide. It deviates from our other design with the
absence of chair stretchers, which makes it (and our arm chair version) able to stack up to eight
chairs high.
The Bartlett Hall is one of our most popular
chairs for great halls that are hundreds of years old. This chair was the
inspiration for the aforementioned Skillman model, with the added advantage of
being stackable. This side chair, or its sister arm chair, are excellent choices for
complementing the enigmatic architectural elements found in many
turn-of-the-century buildings.
For chairs that fit
other architectural styles, view our full directory of chair models or contact
us for a consultation.
March 13, 2018
2018 Expo at the ACUI Annual Conference
We are very excited to be exhibiting at ACUI's 2018 Annual
Conference in Anaheim, CA! Thousands of our chairs are in colleges and
universities across the country, starting with our very first project at
Harvard's Memorial Hall. Our
chairs are a physical aspect of the campus community, and we’re proud to
have our work become part of what supports overall growth and innovation with
America’s college unions. Stop by booth 205 during the Expo to discuss your
potential plans for a site renovation or design. Our sustainable, stacking,
and comfortable wood chairs are truly in a class of their own - learn more
about our focus on sustainability
and custom work on our website at eustischair.com.
March 9, 2018
Eustis Chairs 15 Years Later: Inside the Phillips Exeter Academy Chapel
Back in January
2003 we delivered 300 chairs to the Phillips Exeter Academy for their
chapel, which was built in the 1800s and serves as the school hub for
interfaith events and activities. The Exeter
Modular Pew, seen in these photos and in the chapel today, is engineered
with our Eustis Joint® for unmatched durability. These graceful, interlocking,
stacking pew chairs have the traditional look and feel of church pews,
including a hymnal slot in the back of each chair.
As elegant as
they are when laid out in rows, the real beauty of these chairs is how quickly
they can be disassembled, stacked, and moved to reconfigure the chapel for its
various uses. This was an especially important consideration within Exeter’s
multicultural setting, able to strike a balance between the original
elegance of the chapel while offering a welcoming versatility for at least
twelve religious traditions.
Since the
original chair installation, the chapel’s pew chairs have seen more than
fifteen years of community use. Countless religious gatherings, events, and
other activities have taken place beneath its Gothic light fixtures and wooden
arches. The Eustis Chairs here have been a part of these gatherings, being set
up or stacked elsewhere if they were not needed. Today they’re looking better
than ever while still under our twenty year warranty. Fifteen years go by so
quickly within a setting as timeless as the Phillips Church!
Many thanks
to Phillips Exeter and Cram
and Ferguson for our wonderful relationship; we’re honored to have helped
prepare this historical space for decades to come.
February 15, 2018
The 25 Most Beautiful College Campuses in America
Condé Nast Traveler recently
updated their list of America's
25 Most Beautiful College Campuses. The curators
of this list have judged every college campus in America on merits of its
architecture, design, and surrounding natural beauty and attractions to
finalize those most aesthetically pleasing. Congratulations to our college and
university clients who are featured in this impressive list:
- Northwestern University in Evanston,
Illinois
- Wellesley College in Wellesley,
Massachusetts
- University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois
- Duke
University in Durham, North Carolina
- University of California (UCLA) in
Los Angeles, California
- Princeton University in Princeton,
New Jersey
- Yale University in New Haven,
Connecticut
- Colgate University in Hamilton, New
York
We are very proud to
have worked with these clients, and many other educational institutions,
in recent years to add their campus appeal and charm. Each one has received our
elegant and durable dining, banquet, and grill room chairs, all of which are
made in the USA.
January 9, 2018
Meridian Hills Country Club
Meridian Hills Country Club in Indianapolis, Indiana hired Eustis Chair to build our Claremont II stacking dining chairs. The Club's General Manager heard about our chairs from the nearby Woodstock Club, and Harbour Trees Golf and Beach Club who have our chairs and love them. The Club was also impressed by our chair's comfort, ability to stack 8 chairs high, and our 20 year warranty. Like all of our chairs and barstools, the Claremont II is made to order with our amazing Eustis Joint® in our U.S. factory from your choice of hardwood, any commercially available fabric, vinyl, or leather seats, as arm or side chairs, and is custom stained to match your tables or millwork. Contact us today to learn more about we can help you with our exceptional chairs!
December 28, 2017