Step a bit farther, and you can see the master at work. “I use old hand tools, because that’s how the work was done in the 1740s when Windsor chairs first were created,” Van Hoven said.

With its durable saddle seat and spindle-constructed back, the Windsor chair is a particularly recognizable design. From its rural English origins in the early 18th century, prolific iterations on ...

Thomas Jefferson is said to have written the first draft of the Declaration of Independence sitting in a Windsor chair. George Washington had 27 bow-back Windsor chairs on the portico of his Mount ...

What started off as a hobby for Jim Steele, encouraged by his wife Val, has grown into a love-affair with the Windsor chair. Like a suspension bridge, every part reinforces the other. It is the ...

A Windsor Chair has legs and a back that is socketed into a solid seat. The backs, with often delicate-looking rounded spindles, are either a comb or hoop design. It’s thought that the earlier ...

The chair was a new take on the Windsor model dating from the 16th century: the seat is the structural centrepiece; the legs and back are attached only to the seat. Lucian Ercolani, Ercol’s ...