When Jim Van Hoven’s building in St. Croix Falls, Wis., was a restaurant, cleaning up after hours meant vacuuming up potato chips. These days, at the Woodshop Featuring Windsor Chairs, Van Hoven ...

One thing is missing from a Windsor-style chair that is on display at the Westmoreland Historical Society’s education center. “This is really very primitive. There’s no nails,” said Joanna T. Moyar, ...

One's favorite chair might be the sad-looking old lounger that one's spouse longs to give away, but it's just too comfortable to be replaced. It might be the battle-scarred wooden desk chair that's ...

In a small, windowless factory on Graceland Road, just outside the Northport city limits, Ed Potter plies a trade that is older than the United States. Potter is part woodworker, part artisan, part ...

The Windsor chair was introduced in England in the late 17th century, and it was about 50 years later, around 1730, that the first American Windsor chairs were made in Philadelphia. The American ...

One of the most durable and collected chairs for the dining room or anywhere else in the house is the American Windsor chair. Known for its spindled or slatted comb back, solid wood seat and splayed ...

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The Windsor chair was first made in the late 17th century in England and about 1730 in America. The chairs are similar, but the English chair legs are less splayed and only the English chair has a ...

Terry Kovel and Kim Kovel collectorsgallery@kovels.com Jan 3, 2026 Jan 3, 2026 With 2026 bringing the 250th anniversary of the United States, will we see a revival of interest in colonial American ...