Summer Classics

Specialties

We specialize in high end outdoor furniture, unique indoor furniture, and accessories. Our outdoor furniture is customizeable and made of high quality materials. We love to help you create your escape!

History

Established in 2000.

The company has been in business since the 1970s but our Raleigh store has been here for almost 12 years.

Meet the Business Owner

Bew W.

Business Owner

When Bew White III, president and CEO of Summer Classics, graduated from Auburn University in 1970 with a degree in textile engineering, the phrase «outdoor furniture» had hardly been coined. A weather-​worthy chair was little more than a lightweight aluminum frame colorfully, though delicately wrapped in pliable vinyl tubing.

In the 2000’s, Summer Classics was ahead of the game with the introduction of a type of product that was a proper match for the technological boom, and exhausted boomers, of the new millennium: resin wicker. No longer did one have to worry about organic wicker material cracking and breaking after extended exposure to weather, especially after the sun’s UV rays degraded its structural integrity on a molecular level.

Combining resin wicker with wrought aluminum frames, Summer Classics began producing innovative outdoor furniture that maintained the beauty of natural wicker, but could withstand five years of outdoor exposure without the first signs of cracking or