American Seating

[4] Various notable venues in the United States have featured seats produced by American Seating, including Radio City Music Hall and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, Fenway Park in Boston, the now-demolished Candlestick Park in San Francisco, and the United States Senate chamber.

[1] The company was able to utilize the favorable conditions that led Grand Rapid's furniture industry to blossom at this time.

This included an abundance of forests for lumber, the presence of the Grand River, and an increasing immigrant population in the area providing labor.

[5][13][14] Shortly afterward in 1907, the company and 13 other associated furniture and appliance producers were fined for operating as a trust by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis in the anti-trust case, United States v. American Seating Co.

[1] By 1926, American Seating produced over half of the theatre, school, church, and lodge furniture in the United States.

[1] In 1958, the company introduced the first molded plastic seats for stadiums, first installed in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The transaction, which was finalized two months later in March, resulted in the layoff of 80 workers and an increased focus on transportation seating.