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We deliver in New England from Maine to Washington DC and we ship via Atlas, Mayflower, United, North American and others all over the continental USA. All sales & deliveries are pre-negociated as well as the delivery times. You may qualify for FREE delivery. Give us a call!
We carry a generous selection and wide variety of antique chairs • the popular Windsor chair • Victorian Country Ladder Back chair • Solid and Cane Seats • Singles and Sets • ....Several hundreds to choose from.
Remember!...the BEST time to buy an antique is when you see it! It may not be here when you come back!
From the beginning the utilitarian requirements for a chair have been that it provide a stable and comfortable place to sit down, and that it be constructed to take heavy wear.
Much controversy surrounds the origins of the term 'Windsor Chair'. It is probable that the name was attached to chairs made in the Windsor area in the first part of the eighteenth century.
Soon after Windsor chairs first appeared in King George’s England almost 300 years ago, the design made its way to the Colonies in the New World. Despite its royal English origins, the chair reached its greatest popularity in America. American Windsor Chairs even to this day remain one of the most widely copied styles of seating in America.
Woven cane as a method of chair seating was first introduced into England during the second half of the 17th century. To begin with the holes in the chair framework were very widely spaced apart giving a coarse and unattractive weave. As time passed, the cane-work became finer and more closely woven eventually giving us the six way pattern that we are familiar with today. The popularity of cane as a seating material has remained virtually constant in Europe where even today a good percentage of modern furniture has some cane-work either for its decorative qualities or for its practicality. In England however, its popularity has largely been dictated by fashion.
