Troutman Chair Company, established in 1924, has been family owned since its inception. The Brown family of Troutman, North Carolina is responsible for maintaining the quality manufacturing processes for almost three-quarters of a century.
In 1999, Champ and Jean Land purchased Troutman Chair with the intent of continuing the tradition of handcrafting oak rockers, chairs, and stools in a manner established in back in 1924. Farm house shaker-style chairs, rockers, stools, juvenile chairs, and tables have been the mainstay for seventy-nine years. Items were solid oak, delivered unfinished or with a varnish finish as it is today. Troutman Chair has used their own delivery trucks starting with a 1925 Model T Ford Truck to modern Ford Trucks.
Since 1999 the Lands have made few changes to the Troutman Chair business and products. The goal in purchasing a company already manufacturing the best product in its category and enjoying a near perfect reputation was to merely enhance the best and offer it to the rest of the country.
In a time when a good deal of furniture manufacturing is being done overseas, the Lands feel a sense of pride in knowing that they are seeing to the continuation of a true southern tradition; promoting rocking on the porch and manufacturing rockers the time honored quality way of old master craftsman. Right here in the U.S.A.
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