Windsor Chairs

Windsor armchairs are highly desirable and are the most well known type of vernacular furniture. Originally made in the Thames valley near Windsor and High Wycombe in the Georgian period their popularity led to a variety of regional variants. Windsor chairs are typically made from yew wood and elm but some examples use fruitwood or ash. The form of a windsor armchair is a bentwood outer rail with turned spindles and a shaped saddle seat and raised on turned legs normally joined by a turned or crinoline stretcher.