The Adirondack Chair has become a periodic theme for The Center. The first Adirondack Chair show featured student work developed within the Woodworking and Furniture Design program of Professor Weiland. It was well received at its IUP showing and, later, was exhibited at the Society for Contemporary Craft in Pittsburgh. The second iteration of the theme, in 2005, advanced IUP to a national level of recognition and clarified the challenge “to revisit, explore, and redesign the century old Adirondack chair.” Nine schools with recognized furniture and design programs accepted our invitation to have their students respond to the theme. The exhibition drew an exceptionally large volume of visitors to the IUP Museum and received very positive local and regional press coverage. A modest but superbly designed catalog was created as part of this expanded presence. This catalog has been a valuable recruiting and promotion tool since then, helping to shape awareness, at a national level, of invention and professionalism for the Center for Turning and Furniture Design as well as for IUP.

Catalog introduction by Director Steve Loar...
History of the Adirondack Chair...