Vintage Original 1950'S KOKEN PRESIDENT TWO TONE CLUB Barber Chair Color Sign/Ad

Description

1957 KOKEN BARBER CHAIR SIGN
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This is a colorful authentic reproduction of a new design
KOKEN PRESIDENT
chair  that was part of my dad's barbershop promotional sign. The original sign was found stacked away with other chair ads as he was always looking to buy another.
This can be matted and framed or just hung with string as others were. I have included photos to view of where it was found. The colors of the sign are bright and measures 8 1/2" by 11".
HISTORY
A
barber chair
is a
chair
for customers to a
barber
or
hairdresser
.
The chairs usually have adjustable height (with a foot-operated jack or a hand operated lever on the side). It can also
rotate
, or
lean
backwards (for hairwashing). They are normally made from
metal
and
leather
and are usually pretty heavy.
Barber chairs in engravings from the
Civil War
era share many features with modern chairs, including high seating,
upholstery
, and a
footrest
. The first factory-manufactured chairs date to around 1850. The first one-piece reclining barber chair with an attached footrest was patented in 1878 by the
Archer Company
of Saint Louis. Archer quickly followed it with a chair that raised and lowered mechanically.
Eugene Berninghaus
of Cincinnati improved on Archer's design with the first reclining
and
revolving chair, the Paragon.
Theodore Koch
of Chicago incorporated all of these innovations into his chairs,
selling more than 35,000 chairs in the period before 1885.
In 1897, Samuel Kline (of the
Kline Chair Company
patented a chair and filed a
patent infringement
lawsuit against Theodore Koch in 1905 (but was overturned). In 1904, Kline filed a patent for an "adjustable chair" which was granted in 1907.
In 1900,
Ernest Koken
, a German immigrant, created a
hydraulic
-operated chair and also patented the "
joystick
" side lever, which allowed a barber to control all the mechanical functions.
In the late 1950s, US-based barber chair manufactures sold about 10,000 chairs a year to the 100,000 barber shops. Chicago-based
Emil J. Paidar Company
was a leading manufacturer of barber chairs in the late 1950s Belmont was and American Barber Chair Company from 1948 to 1956 which chair were spinoffs from the Koken Chair. Starting in 1957,Belmont joined Osaka, Japan's
Takara Belmont Company
began importing almost exact duplicates of Paidar chairs--at 20%-30% less cost. By 1970, Takara had 70% of the US market, beating out Paidar who once held the same amount.
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