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Kittinger Furniture is available through several showrooms across the country. Today Kittinger is one of the oldest surviving crafters of fine built-to-order furniture in the United States. The new company has subsequently been profitable. In 1995 the company entered bankruptcy after a private owner was sentenced on fraud charges.ДЄ former Kittinger employee purchased the Kittinger name and production rights in 1996. The Kittinger family controlled and remained involved with the company until they sold their interests in 1966.Д«etween 19, Kittinger Furniture had a total of six owners due to mergers and acquisitions of its corporate owners. Under the Kittinger family's control, the company's primary focus was to craft the highest quality furniture possible with Irvine Kittinger saying 'Our business is not primarily to turn furniture into money, but to produce something really worthwhile.' By 1929, the company was grossing $1,000,000 annually. Kittinger, George Colie's son-in-law, and his brother Ralph purchased the company from the Colie family and changed the company's name to the Kittinger Furniture Company.

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Advertising in 1904, Colie and Son illustrated one of their armchairs, that showed they were still making furniture in the free Colonial Revival style for their 'snappy, original styles in Parlor Suites, Odd Chairs, Divans, Easy Chairs etc.' Reproductions more closely based on original American 18th-century pieces of furniture would come to characterize the firm's production under George Colie's son-in-law

The furniture business proved so successful for the Colie's that in 1885 they built a factory specifically for the crafting of furniture. The Kittinger Company was founded in Buffalo, New York, in 1866 as 'Thompson, Colie & Co.' Around 1870 the company began crafting hand-made upholstered furniture and by this time had changed its name to 'Colie & Son' after George and Oliver Colie took control.

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