And that key step is how did you drill these holes ... And we'll get to take a look at this contemporary hooped back Windsor chair with a bamboo accent. (wood clacking) Well, did I pull it ...

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 ...

Your chair is an arrow back Windsor. Unless you have a set of six or more, most of the reproduction Windsor chairs by Bent sold at auction in the $100 range. More on Hummels I received an inquiry ...

American chairs are made with spindles for the back and to hold the arms. There are many kinds of Windsor chairs with descriptive names like brace back, hoop back, arrow back, fanback, bow back ...

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 ...

Charles and Olenka Santore at home in Fitler Square with their collection of Windsor chairs in 1977. (Courtesy of the New York ... (Courtesy of Sotheby's) Reddish Brown Grain-Painted Scroll-Carved ...

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 ...