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 ...

The Bonhams Skinner auction at which this chair sold listed it as a Harvard University Windsor chair, bringing together two icons of colonial America. Harvard University, originally called the New ...

Can you give me the approximate age and value of the pictured chair from the following information? On the seat bottom: “Colonial, S bent & Bros, Gardner, Mass; Chairs, 513; 017; ANT 30” — R.G. Your ...

The Windsor gradually changed into a captain’s chair with no spindles and a low back. Windsors were made of several types of wood chosen for properties like strength for the legs, pliability for the ...

In a small, windowless factory on Graceland Road, just outside the Northport city limits, Ed Potter plies a trade that is older than the United States. Potter is part woodworker, part artisan, part ...

The Bonhams Skinner auction where this chair sold listed it as a Harvard University Windsor chair, bringing together two icons of colonial America. Harvard University, originally called the New ...

If there’s one article of furniture that has retained its popularity from the time it first appeared in the 18th century right up to today, it’s the Windsor chair. Described by Encyclopedia Britannica ...

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 Joanna T. Moyar, ...