If there’s one article of furniture that has retained its popularity from the time it first appeared in the 18th century right up to today, it’s the Windsor chair. Described by Encyclopedia Britannica ...

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 ...

With 2026 bringing the 250th anniversary of the United States, will we see a revival of interest in colonial American ...

Furniture maker Terry West’s 15-by-18-foot workshop may seem modest by contemporary woodworkers’ standards. But early American artisans turned out countless chairs and tables in even smaller ...

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 ...

Kurt Lewin has been teaching Windsor chair making classes since 2005. His course teaches how to carve, shape, drill and assemble Windsor chairs with strictly hand tools. Lewin sells his handmade ...

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 ...

Finnish graduate Mikko Hannula based the design of this faceted metal chair on a 3D scan of a traditional wooden seat called a Windsor chair (+ slideshow). Hannula's Windsor 2.0 project explores how ...

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 only ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The 1958 Butterfly chair was an evolution of the classic Windsor chair that Lucian Ercolani, founder of the British ...

The Bonhams Skinner auction where this chair sold listed it as a Harvard University Windsor chair, bringing together two icons of colonial America. Harvard University, originally called the New ...