Windsor Back Chairs

Oleh Jerry

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But the two most famous companies were located in Massachusetts and were founded by Levi Heywood, who established a bentwood and Windsor chair factory Heywood-Wakefield Co. The chair in today's question, with its high back decorated with swags and Graceful and traditional, Windsor chairs are uniform in construction from the seat down but varied above to create the chair’s different styles. Their defining trait is solid construction without a single nail or screw. The chair’s spindles, legs and And they come with an interesting history. Legend traces Windsor chairs back to the time of England’s King George II, between 1700 to 1725. Sometime during this period King George II was in the countryside when a storm approached. Seeking shelter Aaron Scaturro's fan back chair, a new take on a classic Windsor chair, in walnut, ash, maple, or cherry, features ebony wedges and hand-turned legs and spindles, and deeply carved seat. It is $2,600 at his dealer, BDDW. A self-taught woodworker Aaron Scaturro, a 31-year-old self-taught woodworker, recently introduced a variation on the Windsor chair that he calls a fan-back dining chair. It takes two days to make, he said, and sells for $2,600. But that’s because of details the untrained eye The Windsor, the most popular furniture style of 18th Century America, is the hot seat collectors of Americana would like to find themselves in. The American country craze has caused antique versions to go for a premium. Insatiable collector interest .

During the Victorian period there came about a revival of the low back Philadelphia Windsor that was made during the years 1725-1760. The chair was used extensively in the quarters of the volunteer fire companies of the time. Therefore it got dubbed as a The American Windsor, because of its features which may have been a companion to the comb- back arm chair; and loop- or balloon-back with the loop-shaped top rail. Windsor chairs have been Charles Santore's obsession ever since he spent $60 for one at a Samuel T. Freeman auction 25 years ago. Last summer at an auction in Manchester, N.H., Santore paid a record $77,000 for a Philadelphia braced-back fan-back armchair. JCPenney has recalled about 4,000 Windsor Spindle-Back chairs because they can collapse, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Wood stretchers in the chairs, which were made in Malaysia, can split while in use. Penney said it had .