The 200-Mile Chair

Megan Lagueruela of Trinity Furniture follows a single chair from raw material to install, showing how a manufacturer's supply chain quietly shapes the quality, lead times, and warranty behind every piece you specify.

In this course, we'll follow one chair around the world and then around the block. We'll trace an outsourced chair through six countries and uncover the five costs that never show up on the price tag, walk the 250-year history that made that model feel normal, and break vertical integration down into its four components. We'll close with a simple grading sheet you can use on any manufacturer, on any project.

Provider: Trinity Furniture

Learning objectives

• Evaluate how a manufacturer's vertical integration affects furniture durability and serviceability.
• Identify the environmental risks hidden in fragmented global supply chains.
• Apply a four-part framework to evaluate any furniture manufacturer.
• Analyze how supply chain proximity affects a manufacturer's ability to fix defects and honor warranties.