Thos Moser Furniture?

DaveH

DaveH

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We've been considering for about three years the purchase of a Lolling chair by Thos Moser:

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Great looking comfortable, yeah, but the price has me totally freaked.

Any alternatives that are similar in style, that are priced more affordably?
 
You could always make your own as I have and mine are stainless steel !!
 
DaveH, that just looks to me like a nicely finished Adirondack chair with some fancy cushions on it and its matching stool. I'd get a cheaper chair of the same design (or make one from some plans that I'm sure are easily available) and put my own cushions on it. Here where I live, injection molded plastic lawn and patio furniture is cheap, plentiful, and popular. Now I'm seeing plastic Adirondack chairs made the same way. Here they sell them right outside the entrances of grocery stores where people will see them and try them out.
 
Hey, Dave, go to google.com and enter the following:

"Adirondack chair" "plans" "plastic" (all on one line).

The first entry that comes up has some horrendous prices shown, but then you can see where to get plans for them and lots of related things. Give it a shot.
 
Doc, I don't know about plastic furniture, which I've had snap underneath me! :D Then, too, I've had an aluminum cot bend under me ...

I'll stick to sturdier construction. But I bet some source like Popular Mechanics has plans for Adirondack chairs in wood.
 
uh, well yeah, the style is similar to a $10 plastic lawn chair, but we wanted something to go in our house, and look nice.
 
Moser has a lot of nice higher end stuff. Not the kind of stuff most folks need, but if you've looked into it and want it, there may not be too many alternatives. Careful, you might have to pony up for a dining set or the rest of the living room.
 
It looks to me like you pay a lot for the name. You can probably find a local maker who can make you a very similar set from excellent and beautiful wood and leather for 1/3 the price.
 
Gollnick said:
It looks to me like you pay a lot for the name. You can probably find a local maker who can make you a very similar set from excellent and beautiful wood and leather for 1/3 the price.
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What Gollnick said.

To add on to that...... Many metropolitan areas, and a surprising number of smaller areas offer college level wood working classes.

You could take these classes or you could speak to an instructor for a recommendation for someone to make you the chair you desire.

A basic chair made by Sam Maloof in 1958 recently sold at auction for $5,100, the same style chair could be made by a competent student for $500 or less.

I have a friend who owns a Sam Maloof rocker, which can go for up to $20,000 or more based upon the information that I could scare up on the net. It is functional art for him, and he would not sell it..lives in a trailer, too.

It is really a matter of if you WANT the Moser "value"/cost or you just want a really nice chair.

Best Regards,

STeven Garsson
 
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