Combining comfort, simplicity, and craftsmanship, Windsor chairs have long been prized by collectors. Introduced from England in the early 1700s, the Windsor style took hold in America first as seating for the well-to-do and later as the favorite chair of the general population. Included in the Windsor family are stools, tables, settees, high chairs, cradles, and candle stands, but the greatest variety is found in the chairs, which range from comb-back to bow-back to step-down versions. Their makers took advantage of the natural properties of different woods for particular components of the chairs, employing hickory, red oak, or ash for bent parts, maple for turnings, and pine for seats. Kassay meticulously documents all of these features and styles with drawings so accurate and precise that amateur furniture makers can use them as blueprints for creating Windsor reproductions. The drawings are complemented by narrative descriptions, photographs, and a list of measured parts for each of the pieces under discussion.
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This book is decent, but a bit expensive for what it offers.
If you want history and critiques of a bunch of windsor chairs...this is your book. If you want to build one of these chairs, this is not the book for you.
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I have really enjoyed this book. It was recommended by a master Windsor Chairmaker and it is great. It would have been five stars except for the plans included. They are a little too small for old eyes.
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This compendium of various Windsor chair designs is outstanding in it's breadth and informative in it's detail. The book discusses a selection of classic Windsor chairs and selected from that collection are examples with detailed construction drawings. This book contains a wealth of information for the collector and the craftsman.
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All the spindles in the backs of comb-back chairs are similar in size and shape and are capped with a horizontal crest rail (or crest board) which gives the back a comblike form and accounts for their name. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
finish unidentified, oval scat, crest board, bracing spindles, arc tenoned, scat pine, crest rail, spindle area, wedged legs, original green paint, legs penetrate, bamboo turnings, scrolled hand, center stretcher, back spindles, baluster turnings, medial stretcher, arm rail, arm spindles, box stretchers, tapered spindles, seat pine, chair arc, side stretchers, scrolled arms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Rhode Island, New England, Name Material, Braced Bow-Back Side Chair, Comb-Back Armchair Philadelphia, Donald Bond, Ebenezer Tracy, Nets York, Queen Anne, American Windsor, Anthony Steel, Braced Continuous-Bow Armchair Lisbon, Dean Levy, West Chester New!
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All the spindles in the backs of comb-back chairs are similar in size and shape and are capped with a horizontal crest rail (or crest board) which gives the back a comblike form and accounts for their name. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
finish unidentified, oval scat, crest board, bracing spindles, arc tenoned, scat pine, crest rail, spindle area, wedged legs, original green paint, legs penetrate, bamboo turnings, scrolled hand, center stretcher, back spindles, baluster turnings, medial stretcher, arm rail, arm spindles, box stretchers, tapered spindles, seat pine, chair arc, side stretchers, scrolled arms Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Rhode Island, New England, Name Material, Braced Bow-Back Side Chair, Comb-Back Armchair Philadelphia, Donald Bond, Ebenezer Tracy, Nets York, Queen Anne, American Windsor, Anthony Steel, Braced Continuous-Bow Armchair Lisbon, Dean Levy, West Chester New!
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- North Carolina (Thirteen Colonies (Facts on File)) by Craig A. Doherty in Front Matter
- Furniture and Its Makers of Chester County, Pennsylvania by Margaret Berwind Schiffer in Back Matter
- Decorative Arts, Style and Design from Classical to Contemporary by Judith Miller in Front Matter
- The Garden City: Past, present and future (Studies in History, Planning and the Environment, No 15) by Stephen Ward in Back Matter
- Furniture Treasury (2 Volumes) by Wallace Nutting in Back Matter
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