While these may look like vintage Adirondack chairs, they aren't true Adirondacks, and are likely a DIY project from days gone by. How can we tell? The back of the chair looks like a portion of a wooden picket fence, and is not as smoothly contoured or angled as an actual Adirondack.
That's not to say these chairs don't have charm. Back in the days before do-it-yourself was an actual term and a badge of honor, our fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers would get a-hold of some chair-makin' instructions from a handyman's how-to book or magazine and whip up one of these fine-looking garden chairs over a weekend. Guys back then had skills -- either learned from their male relatives or woodshop class -- and it was the male version of sewing clothes for the family. It's just what you did, before etsy, Ready-Made and all those other things we've rediscovered about ourselves in the past decade or so.
