Troutman Chair Company Keeps Front-Porch Tradition Alive
FURNITURE MANUFACTURING, once a leading industry and cultural mainstay in North Carolina, is becoming a lost craft. Since 1990, 60 percent of the state’s furniture-making jobs have left for factories in Asia, drawn to their lower material and labor costs....
Reputation for Relaxation
Troutman Chair soothes with their handmade furniture Amid the stacks of chair frames, wooden legs and machinery inside the Troutman Chair Company factory in Statesville, North Carolina, sits a long table surrounded by brightly colored chairs. Large enough to seat 12,...
Troutman Rocking Chairs Greet U.S. Open Visitors
The Iredell County furniture maker whose rocking chairs line the atrium of Charlotte Douglas International Airport is showing off its wares this week on a new stage: the U.S. Open. The U.S. Golf Association purchased 600 classic white rocking chairs - as well as 250...
Meet the Maker: Troutman Chair Company
Troutman Chair Company rockers have been swaying for nearly a century, so it’s hardly surprising they swayed the judges’ hearts and won first place in the Home & Garden category of Our State’s Made in NC Awards. Troutman Chair Company is straightforward about what...
US Open Helps Put Troutman Chair on the ‘World Stage’
Champ Land knows there is nothing like sitting in a rocking chair to cure what ails you, whether those ailments be physical or mental in nature. As owner of the 90-year-old Troutman Chair Company, Land knows a thing or two about rocking chairs. The folks who hand out...
Rocking Along
By Barbara Russell Troutman Chair builds on the traditional product line. The expression "The more things change, the more they stay the same" applies to Troutman Chair Co. these days. Six years after buying the company, the husband-and-wife ownership team has come up...