“It was a huge deal. We call it Chairgate,” Knight, 64, who famouslyplayed Peter Brady onThe Brady Bunch, tells PEOPLE of the situation with a laugh, explaining that people begangoing crazy for the chairsonline and they sold out immediately. That’s how he found out they had been featured.
The chairs in question are a set of white-cushioned wicker club seats — called the Burchett chairs, now$578.99 for two on Amazon— from the online-only furniture company that Knight’s friend from high school began in 2011 and asked him to be a partner in (and eventually give his name to).
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While theBrady Bunchalum doesn’t design the pieces, he does work on the leadership and technology side of things.
Because the company is online-only, there are always many pieces in the collection — “We have, at any one time, upwards of six, seven thousand active SKUs,” Knight says. “There’s no way to be intimately [familiar] with all of them,” he explains. And that’s why he was unaware that the royal couple’s seats had his name on them until the internet let him know.
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“It was a pleasant surprise, and shocking in the income that came our way just because of them sitting in the chairs,” he says, joking: “You would’ve thought the importance of that interview would’ve overshadowed the chair! But it brought us a great deal of attention, which we were grateful for.”
In addition to Amazon,Christopher Knight Home productscan be found online on Overstock.com and Target.com. The collection stays on top of design trends, he notes, and the majority of pieces are affordable, allowing customers to change up their spaces frequently while sticking to a budget.
“We’re finding that people are reacting very positively to these expressions that we’re allowing them to build in their environment and play with in their own homes. It’s rewarding in that regard,” he says. “The cost of the room is no longer so extraordinary that you can’t [change things up] and I do believe that’s what everyone has been doing over the last year and a half.”
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The film, which also stars Haylie Duff and Aaron O’Connell, premieres on December 12.
“It didn’t feel like work,” Knight tells PEOPLE of the heartwarming film, which was shot in Simi Valley, California, not far from Hermosa Beach, where he lives with his wife of five years, Cara Kokenes. “I say yes to projects that we’re all in not just because of the project, but because it’s an opportunity to catch up and have fun again. Every time we get together, it’s like no time has passed.”
The project was the first for many of the stars amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Knight says, and being able to spend time with friends he’s known for over 50 years was a treat after months of isolation.
source: people.com
