The legend of the Acapulco Chair:
Even if the legend say that Acapulco chair was born in the 50s. Designed by a european tourist who was getting inspired by the traditionnal Hamacs ; within the city of Acapulco. We have to be honest. There is no evidence of this and even after having a huge research on it, we cannot find any picture and or official document that can attest of it.
Anyhow, there is many different quality of this product and since 5 years now there is qulity level from low cost version at 30£ quality to a high quality product at above 300£. The question is for an inexperienced buyer, how it's possible to recognize a high quality product from an low cost Acapulco chair.
How I want to Help you regarding quality of Acapulco Chair
I will made few articles to describe the different level and to recognize the level of finition, to check few dimention you can easily notice to know what kind of product you have. Some you will find when you buy physical product and some when you really want to buy online.
As the thing is that there is no original maker, or editor of the acapulco chair even not any designer that can be at the origin of this Acapulco chair ; we cannot say that some makers are doing copy. The only thing we can say, is that there is some product design and produce in a way they will have 3 to 6 months of life and some other are done for 20 to 40 years.
