JustLeanBack Convertible SofaBeds, ChairBeds and SmartFutons are made for every environment: indoors, semi-outdoors and outdoors. Hand-made in the USA
Just Lean Back was for many years called Nikita Convertibles and founded by Nikita Grigoriev,. He patented and designed the first futon convertible sofabed in 1982, which established a new product category in the US patent office.Nikita was an aeronautical engineer and airline pilot. He quit the airline and began making Convertible Furnishings in 1983. Two years later, Nikita purchased an old building in Richfield Springs, New York and assembled a crew of three production workers and a sales representative.As product recognition and demand for futon convertibles grew, Nikita opened a second store in 1987 in Oneonta, NY under the name of Simple Design. Based on market feedback and accumulated design insight, that year Nikita completely redesigned the convertible sofabed frame. The new generation convertibles were then known as “G2”, for Grigoriev second- generation convertibles.These new futon convertibles were revolutionary and elegant design, that were much simpler, lighter, had sloping seats which automatically leveled for bed position. They shipped in compact boxes and, most importantly, sold for half the price of the earlier models.The new mechanism of the “Just Lean Back” frames is based on an innovative four bar linkage which allowing sofas and chairs to Just Lean Back into perfectly flat and stable beds. It is a revolutionary, state of the art technology for convertible furniture. It's sophisticated because of its elegant design. Nikita believes that the best and most elegant solution to any design problem is the simplest one.In 2003, Nikita developed a new outdoor line of unique, self-adjusting convertible loungers and deck furnishings for the rapidly growing "outdoor room" market sector. In order to better describe the new company offerings the company was renamed Nikita Indoor/Outdoor. A new website was launched to present the new "convertible seating for den and deck" and a showroom was also opened in Saratoga Springs, NY. The invitational phrase to customers was to "come in and Just Lean Back" became so appealing, it was not long before Nikita decided to call this whole new line of Indoor and Outdoor convertibles and all future showrooms displaying it.