I love L.L.Bean and adirondack chairs are usually solid chairs however these particular models started chipping and rotting away after a couple winters... They were comfortable, are nice looking when new but I'm returning them and am not sure what I'll buy in their place. They are described as all weather, so I didn't bring them in thinking they'd survive but unfortunately they didn't.
I have a pair of the white LLBEAN Classic Wooden Adirondack Chairs with side tables from about 15 yrs. ago that were really good until a few years ago. They were left out in the weather year round and only sanded/repainted once. I bought two new chairs and side tables thinking they would be of the same quality. Unfortunately, the newer version is of very poor quality overall, growing mold and some sort of a fungus that looks like shelf mushrooms on them on a regular basis. Is it because of new regulations in the paint used? I left my old chairs out in the elements i.e. rain, snow, heat, sun on a grass lawn and they wore like iron. The newer ones were not on a porch but were stored for the winter and started rotting and pealing after 1 year. Is it because of the wood used now? I'll reluctantly give up the wood for the all-weather but it's hard to believe that LLBEAN would allow this to happen to an ICONIC symbol of the company like the Adirondack Chair. If they can't be made right in wood anymore, then just don't make them.
I purchased 2 of these chairs years ago and they had dry rot after a couple of years even though they were out only six months of the year. I returned them in 2010 and was assured this not the norm and they replaced them. The new chairs rotted within 3 years. NOT what I expect from LL Bean products.
