Happy Labor Day! An L.L. Bean / Manchester Wood Story

The first Manchester Wood Adirondack Chair circa 1984.

This Labor Day it is my honor to celebrate the American working man and my grandfather, Clifford Pierce with an article released today on L.L.Bean, which I had the pleasure to write with Nathaniel Gibson.

Please enjoy the story of the birth of an iconic American made product and a symbol of American furniture to many:  the L.L. Bean Adirondack Chair created by Manchester Wood.

Peace and blessings,
Luke Eriksen
Grandson of Manchester Wood’s founder Clifford Pierce, and son of its owners, Ed and Priscilla Eriksen.

Design furniture for Manchester Wood, receive 10% off!

If you could design a piece of furniture what would it be?

This month of September we’re offering a very special and creative sale for all the artists and visionaries out there as a part of our monthly giveaway series. For the entire month, we’re asking you, our beautifully intuitive customer to submit design ideas for potential new furniture that could be handcrafted in America by yours truly, Manchester Wood.

Tony, one of our sample makers at work on a new design.

Sketch, paint, draw pictures, or perhaps actually craft a sample of the perfect solid wood furniture piece you could imagine, and email us at service@manchesterwood.com. We’d prefer detailed information like dimensions, influences, and ways in which you feel it could be made.

With us tapping into your creative juices to help us grow, we humbly offer in return with deep gratitude a coupon code (which we’ll email back) that will grant you 10% off ALL Manchester Wood furniture made right here in the USA in the foothills of the Adirondack mountains of upstate New York.

Peace and blessings, God bless you always,

Manchester Wood: American Made Furniture

American Made Accent Furniture

At Manchester Wood we are proud to produce the best quality solid wood construction furniture accents.  Accent furniture is a staple at Manchester Wood and every piece that we make is completely American made, eco-friendly, and of heirloom quality.

One of our most popular selling accent tables, the Chairside Storage Table, offers more than first meets the eye. The Chairside Storage Table has a hidden storage drawer space for conveniently holding all those necessary but cluttering items. As it  is narrower than normal side tables, this feature is a great space saver.

Novel applications and uses as well as convenient design features are what truly make home accents come alive.  For instance, consider our new Tray Top Coffee Table. As a featured item from our yet-to-be named and released collection, the Tray Top Coffee Table is a uniquely and beautifully designed coffee table with a slatted tray top that can be easily carried off, and placed back, with a large shelving space at the base for magazines, books, or collectibles. The Tray Top Coffee Table adds diversity and style in your home or vacation cabin.  No longer do you have to use a separate tray to bring snacks or drinks to your coffee table.  Now you can simply lift off the top, take it to the kitchen, and then bring it back to put right back on the base.

Our Periodical End Table with Drawer.

We know furniture accents the ‘feeling’ of a room in a whole new way, and at times can work well to change the ambiance of an environment. With our Periodical End Table with Drawer, we find just that. The Periodical End Table with Drawer was created when we added a drawer with more shelving to our popular Periodical End Table & Magazine Rack to increase the table’s storage capacity and versatility. As they say, ‘this too shall pass,’ and while great furniture pieces are always great furniture pieces, we sometimes need to freshen up and find a new vibrant feeling to bring a room. Perhaps the Periodical End Table with Drawer will do just that.

At Manchester Wood, we offer a wide range of quality wooden accent tables in many different styles and with several design options to choose from. We know accent furniture and we understand how furniture accents rooms much in the way that art hangs on the wall. Be sure to shop all our solid wood furniture collections at ManchesterWood.com.  All furniture made in the USA!

Photo Shoot Day!

We spent today on a photo shoot in Lake George, which is in the Adirondacks near our mill. It was a truly blessed time. Here’s a sneak peek at one of the new outdoor furniture items we photographed!

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Wooden Desks for Home Office

Our Shaker Secretary Desk in Chestnut finish

Home office wood desks add a pleasant aesthetic and style to any business or personal setting where an inviting and comfortable work environment is important. At Manchester Wood, wooden desks for home offices are a specialty, with a number of customer favorites. For example, the Shaker Secretary Desk is a unique, colonial inspired wood desks for the home that is made for helping with those daunting on-the-move tasks around the house, like paying bills, organizing schedules, mail, using the laptop, and storing car keys, scissors, and other miscellaneous items. The Shaker Secretary Desk is made in the USA out of sustainable solid wood and for many of our customers, it has become a staple for keeping their homes and lives organized on a daily basis.

Another, more recent addition to our collection of quality wood desks for home office use, is the historically-inspired Campaign Desk. It is a variation of a conveniently designed traveling desk from the Revolutionary era of the early Americas. Given that it was designed for the diplomat, statesman, or military officer on the go, the Campaign Desk is a very versatile piece of solid wood furniture.  It makes a great laptop desk with drawers for printer ink, plenty of room for a lamp, and it is highly portable, folding to move or store-away.   With these features, the Campaign Desk is an excellent piece of solid wood furniture for smaller apartments, or ones where moving your office in and out of a main living space is necessary.

Manchester Wood understands the value of buying high quality home office furniture:  it can boost productivity and make it easier to concentrate at the tasks at hand. Also, to have solid wood office furniture that shows clients that you’re invested in their business. A great true wood desk for home office use is the Large Shaker Desk, a classy Americana solid wood furniture piece with plenty of room for lots of productivity. The Large Shaker Desk is an executive item with an honest, down-home approach to business in design.

When it comes to furniture made in the USA, look no further than Manchester Wood, a quality heirloom furniture manufacturer with reasonable prices on some of the most durable and beautifully honest handmade furniture in America.

Manchester Wood’s ‘Finding Your Purpose’ August Giveaway!

Our Multipurpose Cart & End Table in a ‘Chestnut’ finish.

Our versatile Multipurpose Cart & End Table is the definition of complete mobility with casters on its legs making for a true multipurpose unit. So, in the name of spirited American made solid wood furniture by Manchester Wood, we’ve decided to feature this practical and unique item for our monthly FREE raffle giveaway for this, the month of August!

The Multipurpose Cart & End Table can be used as an end table, magazine rack, printer stand, or more temporary functions: a surface for a laptop or tablet computer with readily available storage to cart away for saving space.

Enter this month’s raffle by emailing service@manchesterwood.com, or ‘tweet’ us on Twitter (@ManchesterWood) with a response to the question of “Where are you finding your purpose?”

We trust the winner, which will be announced the beginning of next month, will find great purpose for this well-crafted solid wood furniture piece.

To view the Multipurpose Cart & End Table, click here.

To view the rest of our ‘Made in the USA’ furniture, visit ManchesterWood.com.

God Bless you always,

Manchester Wood: American Made Furniture

Manchester Wood Accent Tables Made in USA

As Overstock.com suggests, “It’s a common misconception that you need a lamp or a piece of art to complete a room. While those are both good choices, the same function can be filled with an elegant end table. Convenient, functional and at least semi-portable, living room accent tables are quickly becoming the accessory of choice in all types of homes.”

Our Chairside Magazine Rack

At Manchester Wood, when it comes to top end tables, you’ll find exactly what you’re looking for. Our American made solid wood furniture is handcrafted to last generations. Many people don’t realize the quality that’s found in solid wood furniture made in the USA until they buy from Manchester Wood. Customers arrive looking for a top end table brand, yet still are used to purchasing low-end quality furniture from overseas, so nearly all are pleased with  Manchester Wood’s high quality, reasonably priced furniture.

From round end tables to square end tables, contemporary, shaker to mission, Manchester Wood offers the best accent tables in American made furniture.

Aside from our top end table quality, our console and entertainment media stands as well as our coffee tables offer the same quality furniture as with the other lifetime accent tables we manufacture.

We also manufacture display coffee tables and other unique coffee tables, which can be found in oak, cherry, and chestnut finishes.

With quality furniture made in the USA, look no further than Manchester Wood, the leading provider in American furniture manufacturers.

To view our accent tables visit ManchesterWood.com.

Our New Kid’s Youth Adirondack Chair!

Manchester Wood and Adirondack chairs – the two phrases have been synonymous for more than 35 years as we have designed and crafted some of the most recognized Adirondack chairs in America that have appeared in mail-order catalogs, outlets, web stores, uniting brands that believe in the high-quality American made furniture lifestyle Manchester Wood promotes and provides.

Our new Kid’s Youth Adirondack Chair in our ‘Apple Green’ finish!

Our new Kid’s Youth Adirondack Chair is a perfect addition to our Outdoor Furniture Collection. It’s similar to our Kid’s Adirondack Chair, though the Kid’s Youth Adirondack Chair is a size larger, making it perfect for the toddler to early middle grade child (ideal for ages 3-8).

As our Adirondack chairs have become more popular through the years, we’re proud to announce this new addition to our kid’s outdoor furniture. A new solid wood furniture piece designed to withstand the test of time with heirloom quality craftsmanship, and a 100% ‘Made in USA’ label promoting local goods to boot.

When it comes to furniture made in the USA, look no further than Manchester Wood, especially when it comes to Adirondack furniture.  It is one of our many lines that we pride ourselves on and now we are excited to be extending our quality furniture to more kids!

Many Submissions to Manchester Wood’s Gratitude Furniture Giveaway

The winner of our Gratitude Giveaway received a free Serving Tray.

For our solid wood furniture giveaway at Manchester Wood this past March asked customers to submit things that they were grateful for to receive a FREE solid wood Serving Tray. Many took the time to share things things for which they are grateful with us, especially the winner who was kind enough to share her gratitude for the giveaway with us on Facebook:

“Oh my God, I was so surprised when UPS a delivery showed up to my house. I know I didn’t order anything, but to my surprise it was the table! I cannot thank you enough! The smell and structure is beautiful! Thank you again!

Below are a select few more of the amazingly soulful, heart-warming, sincere, and supportive responses we received:

I have recently discovered your website and am fascinated by all of the good quality wood furniture. I am grateful for the gift of eyesight so that I can see the love in my husband’s eyes, and all the wonderful things my children and grandchildren are doing in their careers and play.

I am grateful for every day, living in a beautiful valley with Mount Equinox rising above in the early morning light, good health, my daughter, my community, family and friends, my work, and the love of a smart, talented, beautiful woman. Thanks for asking.

I am grateful for a very loving family.  We might not have a lot, but we sure make up for it with love.  It’s not just my immediate family, husband and foster daughter that I say this about.  It’s always been that way, ever since we (my many siblings and I) were growing up. If you have love, you indeed have many many riches.

I am grateful my mother still knows who I am. She is in a nursing home with short-term dementia. I see her as much as I can. She can still beat me at dominoes.

We discovered many folks grateful for their family, friends,  community, life, and  solid wood furniture. There was lots of thankfulness around having a job too; or unfortunately being jobless in this tough economy, yet still finding gratitude in having a place to live with the ability to  pay the bills.

Although unemployed , I’m grateful that I have a roof over my head when others do not. I can look around and realize that although I’m not in an ideal situation, I at least have shelter and can cover my bills. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway.

I am grateful that I finally found a job with a stable company.

At Manchester Wood, we support job creation in the USA. Many American jobs have been lost do to overseas competition and outsourcing.  We are proud to have remained an American manufacturer that provides jobs for American workers and applaud those who take care to purchase American-made products.  We, and the employees you support, thank you. That is one of the things that we are grateful for.

Manchester Wood offers regular monthly giveaways like this one. Stay up to date on our quality American made furniture giveaways, as well as specials by signing up for our mailing mailing list. Please note that some submissions may have been edited for grammar and spelling.

Celebrate Independence with $64 Gifts for U.S. Jobs July Giveaway

As July begins, summer festivities tend to heat up, which hopefully means many days and nights spent exploring the great outdoors with friends and family, sharing treasured time together. The celebration of our country’s independence kicks off of this month of summertime gathering.  The 4^th of July typically offers smiles and laughs, fireworks and cheers, and a glorious welcome to summer, not to mention a day of reflection for all that we have been gifted with.

At Manchester Wood, we understand the importance of independence, freedom, a dedication to service for each customer, and quality that ensures the best in solid wood furniture. Our monthly giveaway this July is part of our furniture collection that is aimed toward the growth of American jobs. The $64 Gifts of U.S. Jobs category, an inexpensive, quality furniture collection offers an affordable option in supporting made in the USA products, while also supporting the statistic that if each American spent $64 on made in USA products over 200,000 new jobs would be created (source).

Manchester Wood’s $64 Lap Desk offered FREE in July’s raffle giveaway

In spotlighting this incredible new collection, which is currently comprised of five American made furniture pieces, Manchester Wood is offering this month’s giveaway with the FREE $64 Lap Desk to the raffle winner.

To enter the drawing email your name and shipping address to service@manchesterwood.com

The Lap Desk is ideal for working while sitting in a chair or on the couch, perhaps upright in bed. It allows mobility, comfort, and style using a laptop computer, while keeping harmful radiation and unwanted heat away from your body. This is a unique, stylish, Americana-flavored solid wood furniture item.