Firm's Recall Hotline: (800) 326-7931 WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. It is illegal to resell or attempt to resell a recalled consumer product. Name of Product: Leather Butterfly Chairs Importer: Hobby Lobby Stores, of Oklahoma City, Okla. Hazard: The chair legs can detach unexpectedly causing the chair to collapse, posing a fall hazard to consumers. Incidents/Injuries: Hobby Lobby Stores has received nine reports of the chairs collapsing, resulting in minor injuries including contusions. Description: This recall involves brown leather butterfly chairs with copper tubing legs. The leather seat has stitching similar to baseball stitching. Item# MI-1007 and PO#9073513 are printed on the front of the hang tag. Sold at: Hobby Lobby Stores nationwide from February 2009 through April 2009 for about $200.

Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the chairs and return them to the nearest Hobby Lobby for a full refund or exchange card. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death associated with the use of thousands of types of consumer products under the agency’s jurisdiction. Deaths, injuries, and property damage from consumer product incidents cost the nation more than $1 trillion annually. CPSC is committed to protecting consumers and families from products that pose a fire, electrical, chemical orCPSC's work to help ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters and household chemicals -– contributed to a decline in the rate of deaths and injuries associated with consumer products over the past 40 years. Federal law bars any person from selling products subject to a publicly-announced voluntary recall by a manufacturer or a mandatory recall ordered by the

To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury go online to www.SaferProducts.gov or call CPSC's Hotline at 800-638-2772 or teletypewriter at 301-595-7054 for the hearing impaired. Consumers can obtain news release and recall information at www.cpsc.gov, on Twitter @USCPSC or by subscribing to CPSC's free e-mail newsletters.I know butterfly chairs are a contentious issue but I am a shameless super fan. Some people say they look too dorm, but loads of Julius Schulman photos say otherwise. buy elbow chairWho you gonna believe?chair floor mat staples I nabbed these rusty and pitted vintage butterfly chair frames off Craigslist recently and, continuing with backyard rehab projects, cleaned them up with a little sanding (60 grit, 150 grit, steel wool, then tack cloth), priming, and spray painting in matte black. hanging egg chair china

But sourcing replacement covers proved to be a challenge. I took the long road there and ended up purchasing 2 different sets, first in canvas and then in outdoor vinyl fabric. This was a costly dumb move caused by indecision on where the chairs would go – on the covered patio vs out in the yard – mixed with unfounded resistance to “outdoor fabric”. A bummer for me, but hopefully my fumbles can be helpful to someone. So without further mumbling, here is everything I now know about butterfly chair covers and where to source them…black eames chair for sale Unique Contemporary Solutions  – Canvas covers only, one size only, many colors. office chair low polyThe first stop on my chair cover journey because they have one of the best prices for cotton duck replacement covers. 1930s table and chairs for sale

They’ll be sending you an Algoma brand replacement cover, a one size only deal which fit kind of awkwardly on my awkwardly shaped vintage frames (below right; frame is 29″ across top, 27″ across bottom, 34″ from seat back to seat bottom). Canvas covers are designed for indoor or sheltered outdoor use only, so they are a no go for many yard applications – including mine once I decided to move my butterflies into the open yard. However, I can speak to the quality of Algoma’s cotton duck covers because we’ve used a pair of the smaller Algoma folding butterfly chairs for years on camping trips in the old trailer and, more recently, as a stand in for vintage chairs on the patio. wholesale white folding chair covers(If you are thinking about buying folding frames to throw in your car and take to the beach, you should know that they are really heavy and hard to collapse and can put a strain on a marriage.) best baby bouncer chair 2012

Algoma’s canvas covers look and feel great and will stay that way if you take care of them. Covered, canvas will stay decently clean with occasional washings. (Uncovered, they quickly become a dirty mess and will hold rain water puddles for long enough to mildew, ew.) Getting dirt out of them can be tough but pressure washing works wonders. The next best thing is soap and water and a scrub with a hard brush. They will shrink minimally in the washer with a hang dry and substantially in the washer with a dryer dry (happened).throne chair for sale uk But if your space and use can accommodate the fabric, they are beauties. Here is what I got from Unique Contemporary Solutions, in natural color: D&J Patio  – Canvas and outdoor covers, one size only, many colors. D&J sells heavy duck canvas covers as well as outdoor “Space Weave” covers and their outdoor fabric prices are very good. For purchase #2, I went with their white vinyl covers, designed for uncovered outdoor use.

These are also a one-size only deal that seems to run on the bigger side, but still work on my smallish vintage frames (frames are 29″ across top, 27″ across bottom, 34″ from seat back to seat bottom). My take on them so far is that they are really comfortable, durable, wonderfully easy to clean, airy, look surprisingly great in the yard and are definitely the way to go if your chairs will be exposed to the elements or slobs. Cleaning is as simple as rinsing off with a hose. They are nothing like the cheap camp chair fabric that my aesthetically snobby self originally imagined and dismissed. But with those good things comes 2 design flaws. The edge banding is not white vinyl, but instead “natural” canvas, which in real life looks a lot like tan to me. This is stated on their website but I didn’t really grasp how problematic it could be until after I owned them. The color difference is not ideal but not a deal breaker because once they are out in the yard it isn’t very noticeable.

However, the canvas is proving to iffy for heavy outdoor use. A bird dumped on one of mine and while the space weave cleaned as futuristically as you would think space fabric should, I can’t get the dump stain out of the canvas! To add to the issue, the cool folks over at Fogmodern reported sun fading on the canvas edging of their black outdoor D&J covers. (Sidenote: SERIOUSLY CHECK OUT FOGMODERN LIKE RIGHT NOW! How amazing is their DIY yard and their awesome Eichler?!) If you can live with those issues, then D&J is a good option. For additional info on the covers, you should check out this helpful post from ModFrugal. This is what a D&J Space Weave purchase looks like (no clue why the label says 2 pieces, it’s not): Circa50 – Canvas and outdoor covers, four sizes, many colors. The most widely known but priciest place to source replacement covers, but for good reason. They offer covers in heavyweight canvas or outdoor vinyl weave. I think I should have saved myself the trouble and bought from here to begin with.

While I can’t personally speak to the quality of Circa50’s outdoor covers, just the fact that they 100% vinyl puts them way ahead of D&J. Circa50 seems to be the choice of well-designed hotels (The Parker and The San Jose, to name a few), speaking volumes about their appearance and durability. I’m guessing their canvas is tops too and they even sell reproduction butterfly frames. I like that they have different sized covers, especially since my frames seem to be dimensional odd ballers. The unconfirmed word on the street is to order up because they run small. This post from The Brick House is informative if you are considering buying from Circa50. Sears – Canvas covers only, one size, many colors. Weird, but if you are willing to do a little online digging, I think the same canvas Algoma covers I talked about from Unique Contemporary Solutions (what a terrible name) are sold at Sears and sometimes at dirt cheap sale prices. Though not immediately evident, it appears that they sell 2 different Algoma sizes but mistakenly describe both as for folding frames.