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Picture This CIV
A simple, stylish eighteenth-century comb-back Windsor chair comprising a D-shaped seat, one-piece bent arm, blade arm posts, plain crest rail and Goldsmith-esque legs with H-pattern stretchers. The seat, arm and crest rail appear to be sycamore and the remainder is … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques
Tagged ash, comb-back, forest chair, one-piece arm, sycamore, Windsor chair
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Picture This XCIX
From the ‘what were they thinking?’ files, comes this eighteenth-century Windsor chair. Primitive comb-back Windsor, circa 1780. (Robert Young) The keen-of-eye might have noticed the H-stretcher’s unusual (and original) orientation which must have been the cause of many a painful … Continue reading
Picture This LXXXVIII
Another forest chair, made, rather primitively, from ash and sycamore with original dark green paint. Painted ash and sycamore North Country comb-back Windsor chair, circa 1770. (Robert Young) Jack Plane
Posted in Antiques, Picture This
Tagged ash, comb-back, forest chair, painted chair, sycamore, Windsor chair
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Picture This LXXVII
I am seeing forest chairs everywhere and am beginning to wonder if there are any Windsor chairs out there that aren’t painted. The striking lath-back armchair in figure 1 incorporates bold leg turnings (compare with the chairs here and here), … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques, Picture This
Tagged ash, comb-back, continuous-arm, crest rail, double bow, elm, forest chair, fruitwood, lath-back, leg turnings, one-piece arm, seat, splat, stretcher, walnut, Windsor chairs, Yealmpton chairs
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Making an English Comb-back Windsor Chair – Part Two
Last December I transcribed some of my old and fragile paper and card patterns onto MDF and by no coincidence whatsoever, one of them was a seat pattern for a mid eighteenth-century Thames Valley elbow chair! I used the pattern … Continue reading
Making an English Comb-back Windsor Chair – Part One
My inspiration for this Windsor chair derives from a unique style of comb-back chair produced in the Thames Valley region of South East England from around 1730 through to roughly 1800. The chairs of this ilk all share very distinct … Continue reading
Posted in Seating
Tagged ash, comb-back, elm, Goldsmith legs, Thames Valley, Windsor chair
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