WHYY: America’s definitive collection of antique Windsor chairs will be sold at auction
Charles and Olenka Santore at home in Fitler Square with their collection of Windsor chairs in 1977. (Courtesy of the New York Times via Sotheby's) About 70 antique Windsor chairs from the collection ...
America’s definitive collection of antique Windsor chairs will be sold at auction
Star Tribune: Antiques Q&A: Harvard Windsor chair unites two icons of Colonial America
Our ancestors would be surprised to find the humble Windsor chair among the superstars of today’s antiques world. After all, there is nothing elegant in a Windsor’s materials, nothing grand in its ...
In his workshop just outside the village of Madison, Chris Harter is making the antiques of tomorrow. Using traditional techniques and tools, Harter specializes in Windsor chairs. Since he started ...
Buffalo News: Antiques: The differences between Windsor chairs made in England, America
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 ...
The Windsor gradually changed into a captain’s chair with no spindles and a low back. Windsors were made of several types of wood chosen for properties like strength for the legs, pliability for the ...
The Bonhams Skinner auction at which this chair sold listed it as a Harvard University Windsor chair, bringing together two icons of colonial America. Harvard University, originally called the New ...
The Windsor chair was first made in the late 17th century in England and about 1730 in America. American chairs are made with spindles for the back and to hold the arms. There are many kinds of ...