Made By Hickory Chair

Hickory Chair is Well Crafted

Recently Hickory Chair was honored with a very special award!  The Hickory Business Development Committee selected Hickory Chair as the first recipient of their "Business.Well Crafted.Award"!  This new award is part of the city of Hickory's ongoing 'Life. Well Crafted.' initiative where local businesses, artisans and craftsmen are celebrated that make or manufacture products in the Hickory area.  This very special award does have a unique criteria - the company must have been doing business in the community for 75 years or more!

The city has a blog that featured Hickory Chair in its 'Well Crafted' series.  After the presentation, the local Hickory Daily Record newspaper released this story, 'Hickory Chair gets first 'Business. Well Crafted.' award. These great articles pay tribute to the talented artisans and craftsmen that choose fine furniture making as their vocation.  We are proud to report that 86 additional artisans and craftsmen joined our Hickory Chair team in 2012 AND we have approximately 40 additional openings now!  Contact Hickory Chair for more information 828-328-1801 or info@hickorychair.com.

We enter 2013 as a company dedicated to continuous improvement, teamwork and collaboration between our 580 employees, practicing lean manufacturing while making fine furniture  one piece at a time by hand.  It is the talent and vision of our team that allow us to create custom pieces to order.  For example, we can take a classic wing chair and make it as tufted settee...turn a console into a bar table...add a dressmaker skirt to a sofa with legs...hand stripe a wicker chair.  We call these 'special construction requests'.  We receive them every day and try to say yes to most!  Every time we say yes this means we have accepted the challenge to hone our skills by making something we have never conceived in our imagination.  Each completed piece gives us confidence to stretch and do things we might have declined in the past. We at Hickory Chair would like to say THANK YOU to all of you that have allowed us to make pieces for you. 

Why settle when you can have it MADE? Thank you for visiting your local Hickory Chair dealer or our website to view our extensive selection of products, options and customization possiblities. 

 

Nothing Says Hand Made More Than Hand Tufted

Tufted furniture has reappeared leading fashion, comfort and luxury. Real tufting is a centuries old craft that is hand made by only the most skilled craftsmen.

In these pictures we have featured a wide variety of tufted pieces made in our Hickory, NC workroom! From classic 18th Century custom tufted settees to custom banquettes made for a restaurant to the new Syrie Maugham Sofa, our craftsmen are eager to create special pieces in just a few weeks from order.

Real hand tufting entails using a needle that is just over 12 inches long that is threaded with polyester thread and a hand made button. The tufter inserts the needle through the fabric, padding and frame and then creates the diamond shaped tuft, folds the pleats and then ties the buttons to the correct depth. This process requires about 3-4 hours for a chair and as long as 8 hours for a large sofa.

It is this type of careful precision found at Hickory Chair whether it is in hand sanding, hand inlay, hand finishing, hand sewing, hand painting, hand nailing or any other area. It is Made not manufactured. Made by hand. Made to order. Made to last. Made for over 100 years. Made for you?