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The collection from USA-OK, a brand-new company formed by Chicago-based friends and collaborators Ray Doeksen and Mike Dreeben. USA-OK grew out of a simple question: How can two guys without a big development budget produce an affordable, good quality, comfortable American-made chair? The solution developed around a process called brake forming: a group of standardized, low-cost operations with which skilled American workers in Chicago can efficiently cut and form sheet metal into precise, complex shapes.