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The Gillows Windsor Chair
The rustic and oft clumsy wooden-seated chairs of the early eighteenth-century were initially employed as outdoor seating and painted (usually in green) to better resist the elements. Over the following decades the Windsor chair’s shape and form were refined and … Continue reading
Posted in Antiques
Tagged Antigua, crinoline stretcher, forest chair, Gillows, green paint, Grenada, Jamaica, painted chair, West Indies, Windsor chair
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The Original Campaign Chair
Almost two hundred years before the Roorkhee chair was adopted by twentieth-century adventurers and militias, Windsor chairs were commonplace anywhere cheap, lightweight and portable seating was required. Black- or green-painted Windsors known as ‘forest chairs’ were used outdoors from the … Continue reading
Mahogany in the Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Centuries
Mahogany has been called the furniture timber and was certainly the most important commercial timber of the eighteenth-century. Its massive trunks afforded hitherto unobtainable wide boards which soon found their way into English dining rooms as tables and sideboards – … Continue reading
Posted in Furniture Timbers
Tagged Antilles, Belize, cabinetmakers, Cuba, furniture, Honduras, Jamaica, mahogany
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