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Mid Century Morris Futorian Chair

  Lot # 008
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Condition
Very Good & Good see description for issue
Size
37" x 31.5"x 27"
Location
Main Basement
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Lot # 008
System ID # 2320461
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Totally Retro Mid Century Light Green Swivel, Vinyl Chair with Tufted Back. Manufactured by Futorian Manufacturing Company of New York. Faded in areas and crease on left arm with mark on side that may come out with gentle cleanser as can be seen in photographs.

Morris Fuorain has been called the Henry Ford of upholstered furniture and was among the first inductees into the American Furniture Hall of Fame. He was a 15-year-old immigrant from the Ukraine, arrived with his parents and sister in Chicago in 1923. The tools of his father's trade turned him toward furniture and a long road that would bring him extraordinary success in Mississippi decades later. At a very young age, he worked beside his father at the Glabman Bros. furniture factory on Halsted Street in Chicago. Futorian first began repairing broken furniture in his neighborhood to make ends meet. By 1938, he'd turned to crafting new furniture with a handful of employees in his first manufacturing venture. Early and late each day, Futorian made furniture alongside his assistants. In the middle of the day, he knocked on doors and sold his products. Futorian is often believed to have made his first fortune in Mississippi. But in a 1968 testimonial dinner marking his company's 20th anniversary in New Albany, Futorian spoke of the employees who worked with him in Chicago and of his company's generating $3 million to $3.5 million at its height there. By 1947, Futorian employed 75 workers and had ascended to an uptown location: Chicago's Merchandise Mart. But two things fueled his desire to look elsewhere: a burgeoning idea to produce furniture on a mass assembly scale and the need to find masses of workers to staff those furniture lines.