Couple’s 'retirement job' shows no signs of slowing down

For most, the idea of retirement means relaxing days in the sun, somewhere warm, and far away from the daily grind.

That is not the case for a Massachusetts couple who started their “retirement job” almost 50 years ago. Their idea of relaxing is running a company that makes, in their words, "formed for function" furniture. Advertisement

“I was always afraid that, sort of at mid-life, you would lose your freedom to choose what you want to do," said Gerhart Klein, owner of Brigger by Klein Design .

At 92 years young, Klein first started making furniture in the mid-1970s. At the time, he couldn’t find a chair that he liked at local furniture stores, so he decided to make one.

In the mid-1980s, he moved into his current manufacturing facility and hasn’t stopped since.

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