[HN Gopher] American Seating's original and largest market was s...
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American Seating's original and largest market was school furniture
Author : antismarm
Score : 32 points
Date : 2022-07-01 23:09 UTC (23 hours ago)
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| tsomctl wrote:
| I was working across the street from the high school today, and
| was watching some kids race down the street in office chairs. But
| they weren't cheap Costco ones, they were metal and obviously
| from the school. I was thinking that they must be really well
| made.
| asdff wrote:
| Schools absolutely burn cash on furniture these days. Even when
| I was in high school it was bad. School administrators went to
| an apple store and had to buy those expensive huge solid wood
| tables they had for the common areas, which people promptly
| defaced in a few years. Wooden lockers too in the new wing, but
| they had those crappy cabinet hinges that tend to pop off with
| typical usage, so half the lockers would end up crooked and
| apathetic kids would slam them anyhow and legitimately damage
| the door at that point.
| woodruffw wrote:
| This probably varies widely by state and even
| county/district. My NYC public schools had hard plastic
| everything; the only non-plastic surfaces were sheet-metal
| lockers and soapstone lab counters. And I went to a well-
| funded school with lots of extra alumni cash.
| lordnacho wrote:
| You can buy the tables from the Apple store? Really?
| blamazon wrote:
| Not literally from the Apple store as a merchant, but you
| can get the same style of tables, yes.
|
| A web search turned up these folks who may be involved in
| the actual Apple store tables:
|
| https://fetzerwood.com/
| KerrAvon wrote:
| I'm pretty sure that's not the case in most public high
| schools in the US. Parents would go apeshit if they wasted
| money like that.
| Pulcinella wrote:
| Schools burn cash in a "it's expensive to be poor" kind of
| way. The desks in the schools I worked in were practically
| consumable, only lasting a couple of years before needing
| to be replaced. It's impressive in a frustrating way:
| manufacturers have finally figured out the exact minimum
| amount of material and exactly how shoddy and few the welds
| can be to produce a desk and still be able to sell them.
| There is absolutely no bracing so sitting on them bends
| everything out of tolerance until a weld fails or the 4
| legs are splayed out flat against the floor.
| cardamomo wrote:
| This is tangentially related, as the Twitter thread focuses
| exclusively on seating, but if you're interested in the designers
| and companies that have shaped school and other aspects of
| children's lives, I highly recommend "The Design of Childhood" by
| Alexandra Lange. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/design-of-
| childhood-9781632866...
| [deleted]
| mc32 wrote:
| Tell you what. At least the ones I'd used were damn well built.
| The absolute beating those things took and withstood. Paint got
| chipped was about it. Maybe the arm drooped a bit from those
| days' big kids.
| dietrichepp wrote:
| Only if you had short hair. If you had long hair, the chairs
| would try to eat it.
| systemvoltage wrote:
| Library bookshelves are cool as well. Overbuilt. Insanely
| robust. Those bookends don't move, the rest of the earth does.
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