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   PSeverin | Oct 19, 2011 01:50pm | #1

   An interesting problem

   I don't have a source for plans, but it is an interesting problem.  Looking at a few examples I notice that the seat rails and seat are inset from the rear legs so that the rear legs of a  chair stacked over clears the seat below and nestles with back legs against back legs and front to front..

   I would suggest you go and look at some of the commercial, I'm searching for the word, contract furniture for schools, churches and offices.  I flipped open an old catalog and found one example; the "Groton Stacking Chair" from Adden Furniture in Lowell, Mass.  It's an armed chair with a runner at the bottom.  The Buckstaff Company in Oskosh, WI makes a wooden stacker, Model 6701.  Who knows if these companies still exist but I'm sure you can find others.

   So take a look and see how you have to adjust the chairs you already make to allow them to stack.  People have been amazingly clever for a long time and we get to borrow and build on what they have done.

   Peter