American Seating’s original and largest market was school furniture
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#2This 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...
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#3Tell 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.
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#4I 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.
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#5I 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.
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.
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#6I 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.
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…
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.
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#7Tell 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.
Only if you had short hair. If you had long hair, the chairs would try to eat it.
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#8I 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.
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…
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.
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#9I 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.
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…
You can buy the tables from the Apple store? Really?
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