Hickory Rocking Chairs

Rocking armchair by Old Hickory Furniture Company of Martinsville, Indiana. Features a primitive Adirondack style with flared arms and rattan seat. History In the 1800's as pioneers traveled West across America, they discovered the useful and remarkable hickory tree. This small diameter tree grew throughout the Midwest in groups of twenty to thirty, surrounded by much larger trees. As the saplings struggled towards the sunlight above, they grew straight and tall - yet the diameter did not exceed two to three inches - even after twenty to thirty years of growth. The hardwood saplings were used for many different things (e.g. wagon wheel spokes, tool handles and furniture). The hickory saplings could be bent to fit the contours of the body, so the furniture was incredibly comfortable and strong. The inner bark strips could be woven together in a herringbone pattern to make soft yet durable chair seats and backs. In the 1890s Billy Richardson started selling hickory chairs and rockers on Saturdays on the town square in Martinsville, Indiana. Legend has it that Richardson and his father had made hickory chairs and rockers for the President Andrew Jackson's home, The Hermitage many years earlier. Others in the Martinsville area studied Richardson's products and banded together in 1892 in an abandoned church, producing hickory sapling furniture as a full-time business. They chose the name ""Old Hickory"" for the new company, the same nickname as the late President Jackson. When the company incorporated in 1899, a full line of products were available for shipping across the country to homes and resorts. Old Hickory furniture became so poplar that it was going to the new National Park Lodges in the West as well as Great Camps and resorts in the Adirondack Park. The most famous installation was the Old Faithful...

Primitive Rustic Adirondack lodge chair. Handmade from hickory with woven seat and back. Dimensions: 24" w x 28" d x 34.5" h; seat 17"

Mira Nakashima (born 1942) New Chair Rocker, Nakashima Studio, USA 1991 American black walnut and hickory 84cm high, 71cm deep, 47.5cm wide, seat height 39.5cm Signed and dated to un...

Pair of 1930s Old Hickory and Bent Wood Amish Rockers. Wonderful patina strong and sturdy rockers. A coat of varnish has been placed over the finish to protect from all weather.. Won...

Mid 20th Century Hickory Adirondack rocking chair designed in the manner of Old Hickory Furniture. The chair is in the form of #21 an important and popular chair that was made by th...

An Adirondack style rocking chair in the manner of Old Hickory offers branch form frame with slat back and seat, c1950 Measures- 36.75''H x 22.25''W x 26.5''D

Vintage George Nakashima "New Chair" rocking chair. Commissioned by an important private texas collector. Signed with the client's name & Ge...

This is a new Adirondack rocker In the style of Thomas Moser. It also is very similar to the new Amish bentwood rocking chair.This is on...

Old Hickory spring chair with a metal base and woven seat and back. The seat was rewoven at some point with narrower cane. It has a wide seat, rounded ...

Fantastic old hickory barrel back rocking chair. Rocker is very Strong.

An antique Adirondack rocking chair by Old Hickory offers stick construction in form with reeded seat and back, maker signed, c 1910 ...

Vintage hickory rocking chair with original woven seat and back. Circa 1920-1940.