When Jim Van Hoven’s building in St. Croix Falls, Wis., was a restaurant, cleaning up after hours meant vacuuming up potato chips. These days, at the Woodshop Featuring Windsor Chairs, Van Hoven ...
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, ...
Mike Dunbar, master maker of the classic Windsor-style chair, has recently embarked on a video project to share his 30 years of experience in a series of detailed videos showing how to make ...
One's favorite chair might be the sad-looking old lounger that one's spouse longs to give away, but it's just too comfortable to be replaced. It might be the battle-scarred wooden desk chair that's ...
One of the most beautiful and functional antique chairs has to be the Windsor. It offers a simple design and a comfortable place to sit. These chairs owe their classic design to humble furniture ...
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One of the most durable and collected chairs for the dining room or anywhere else in the house is the American Windsor chair. Known for its spindled or slatted comb back, solid wood seat and splayed ...
The Windsor chair was introduced in England in the late 17th century, and it was about 50 years later, around 1730, that the first American Windsor chairs were made in Philadelphia. The American ...
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 ...
Brian Cunfer remembers his wife, Kathleen, squeezing his leg the first time she laid eyes on an 18th century home on Pumping Station Road. She didn’t want to tip off the Realtor driving them toward ...