One thing is missing from a Windsor-style chair that is on display at the Westmoreland Historical Society’s education center. “This is really very primitive. There’s no nails ...

He builds Windsor chairs one at a time much like furniture makers did in 18th-century Colonial America. “The only exception is today I use power tools,” Potter said.

Windsor chairs originated in England in the 18th century and have turned legs, steam-bent backs, round joinery, and seats made of carved solid wood. For more, visit: ...

Windsor chairs, ladder-back chairs, Queen Anne chairs and rockers are a few of the treasured pieces from American's golden age of furniture making that he fabricates.

Michie is the curator of decorative arts at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and that perfect resolution is the Windsor chair, an early 18th Century English form that emigrated to ...

My kitchen chairs are Ercol Windsor chairs, made in the 1950s from ash and still sturdy and without a creak – and it’s that practicality that explains the longevity of a design that first ...

Making chairs is a physically demanding process. Like the 18th-century craftsmen whose work he emulates, Grell uses hand tools, so the power comes from him.

Originally, Windsor chairs were painted, usually with green milk paint, because they were often used outdoors in 18th and 19th century parks and gardens.

The Windsor chair was first made in the late 17th century in England and about 1730 in America. The chairs are similar, but the English chair legs are less splayed and only the English chair has a ...

Oct. 24—One thing is missing from a Windsor-style chair that is on display at the Westmoreland Historical Society's education center. "This is really very primitive. There's no nails," said ...