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.

They can be easily distinguished by the shape of the chair’s back, like low-back, fan back, sack back, comb back, and bow back. No matter the style, a Windsor chair can be recognized by its ...

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 ...

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 ...