Review and Comparison Guide: Modern Classic's Executive Side Chair

 Modern Classics  

We offer 16 colors of textured boucle 100% polyester fabric made in US, which is is considered a high performance fabric with 250k double-rubs, highly resistant to piling or fading, plus it has a stainguard built into the material. Using state of the art dying techniques, each dye lot is virtually the same and color matching is never an issue. We also offer 20 colors of italian leathers. There is also the option of providing your own fabric or leather for a minor custom upcharge.

  Design Within Reach 

Offered in a wide range of colors and fabric grades, however, their signature Classic Boucle is a low performance wool/nylon blend not known for its long life. Knoll also offers the chair in leather, in a wide variety of colors.

 Rove Concepts  

Offered in a very cheap fabric, a wool blend, that has no life span or stain protection. Will rapidly pil up. Unstable dye lots, so rarely can you get a complete set of chairs that look the same. Also offered in leather.

 Kardiel Furniture 

Offered in a very cheap fabric, a wool blend, that has no life span or stain protection. Will rapidly pil up. Unstable dye lots, so rarely can you get a complete set of chairs that look the same.

 Modern Classics  

Our frame dimensions are a very close match to the designer's original intent of the model. Our chair has the excellent sitting position, a flexible back and is light to move. Using a mold means consistant results from chair to chair.

 Design Within Reach 

The chair sold at DWR is the Knoll brand chair dimensions seem to be the same mold throughout the lifetime of their manufacturing.

 Rove Concepts  

Frame dimensions are a very different than the Signature version, in that, the chair sits more angled back and the chair is not as wide.

 Kardiel Furniture 

Frame dimensions are a very different than the Signature version, in that, the chair sits higher and does not closely resemble the Saarinen style chair at all.

 Modern Classics  

Our chair shell is constructed of Fiber-reinforced polymer internal shell for greater strength than the other brands. The back is flexible, but sturdy. The chair cushion has a plywood bottom, with foam glued on top. Holes are placed for legs and seat cushion attachments.

 Design Within Reach 

Their chair shell is made of plastic, making it very light and flexible. The bottom of the chair cushion is also wood.

 Rove Concepts  

Their chair mold is made of carbon fiber, but we are not sure what that means. Carbon fiber tends to light, but very stiff. So whether that takes away from the comfort of the chair, is not known.

 Kardiel Furniture 

Their chair mold is severly messed up, their chair does not resemble the executive side chair.

 Modern Classics  

We offer two styles of legs: Solid Stainless Steel and Solid Wood. We use solid stock stainless steel while most others use tubular steel chrome plated. Our wood legs are North American Red Oak, steam bent to shape, then machine routered to form the signature look. We install a plastic foot on the bottom of each leg. We offer the wood legs in 5 colors, but we can color match to your stain color, for orders of 25 chairs or more. We can also powder coat the stainless steel legs using one of our standard colors, or your own selection.

 Design Within Reach 

TThe Knoll Saarinen Executive Side chair sold at DWR is offered with both steel and wood legs. The steel legs are chrone plated. The wood legs are steam bent oak with several stain colors. The steel legs seem to have an ackward pitch or angle, so the wood legs look much better. They also offer swivel base and swivel base with casters, which no one else on the market offers.

 Rove Concepts  

Rove uses solid stainless steel legs for their offering, but the angle and construction is quite different than ours and the Knoll version. Their wood legs are problematic, in that they use bent plywood legs, which are known to have a high failure rate. They also only offer one color of stain.

 Kardiel Furniture 

Kardeil uses solid stainless steel legs for their offering, but the angle and construction is quite different than ours and the Knoll version. Their wood legs are problematic, in that they use bent plywood legs, which are known to have a high failure rate. They also only offer one color of stain.

 Modern Classics  

We offer the extreme flexibility on this model for customizing. First, there is the upholstery material. You can provide your own fabric or leather. You can do leather seat and fabric back (or vice versa). For larger volumes, we can custom match stain on the legs. We can powder coat the legs using one of our standard colors, or your own selection.

 Design Within Reach 

For a significant upcharge, Knoll will make a chair using your fabric or leather. They do not offer a custom stain option for their wood legs.

 Rove Concepts  

Rove does not offer custom modiifcations for their offering, in fabric, wood or anything.

 Kardiel Furniture 

Kardeil does not offer custom modiifcations for their offering, in fabric, wood or anything.