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A Windsor chair is a chair built with a solid wooden seat into which the chair-back and legs are round-tenoned, or pushed into drilled holes, in contrast to other styles of chairs whose back legs and back uprights are continuous. The seats of Windsor chairs are often carved into a shallow dish or saddle shape for comfort.
Francis Trumble was an 18th-century chair and cabinetmaker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Trumble produced a variety of "fine furniture" in the Queen Anne , Chippendale and Federal styles. [ 1 ] He also manufactured Windsor chairs that are believed to be the ones used at Independence Hall by the Second Continental Congress , and depicted in ...
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In 1944, Ercol was contracted by the government's Board of Trade to produce 100,000 low-cost Windsor chairs under the Utility Furniture Scheme. [3] Windsor chairs were constructed with a bentwood frame and an arched back supporting delicate spindles, using the steam bending of English elm – a wood previously thought difficult to bend because it distorts.
A rocking Windsor chair Rocking chair (rocker), typically a wooden side chair or armchair with legs mounted on curved rockers, so that the chair can sway back and forth; sometimes the rocking chair is on springs or on a platform (a "platform rocker") to avoid crushing anything, particularly children's feet or pets' tails, that get under the rockers
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The High Wycombe Chair Making Museum in High Wycombe, England, houses a collection of antique tools, and explains the process of how the bodgers worked in the woods through to the finished Windsor chairs. It is now run as a community interest company. [1]
The Windsor Institute was a school in Hampton, New Hampshire, United States. It was owned and operated by Michael Dunbar [1] , where five-day courses in Windsor chairmaking were taught year round. The school had its final class, an 'Early Philadelphia High Back Arm Chair', in March 2016.