Windsor Chairs: Love Seat, Two seater and other specials

I enjoy making all kinds of special designs. For instance each year I make something eye catching as an exhibition piece. Here is a selection of recent examples. If you have seen a really wild chair that you like, I would be very interested in giving you a quotation to make one. I am happy to make copies of old chairs (not other workers' current production please!) or to work from photographs, patterns or even book illustrations.

I've seen various examples of Love seats, and always thought they were missing just a little something in the bit in the middle. These chairs are individual but inseparable, arms and legs entwined. The seats are crotch pattern Sycamore, and intriguingly interlocked. All other components are Oak. This kind of Seat will grace any library or gallery.

Normally available to special order only. This one now sold. About £1300, but subject to individual quotation.

A two seater settee in mixed woods, to match the Sack Back range of chairs. This one now sold. About £1100

Available to special order only to individual quotation. I do try to keep some of the long bends for the arms of these settees in stock ready to go to save a very long wait.

A different style of two seater settee in mixed woods. The bends are Beech and everything else is Ash. The seat has a very special grain pattern as it is made from the crown board of a very large tree. It may look delicate, but in fact is very strong due to its engineering. This one is called a "Shawl Back". In the old days of draughty rooms and open log fires they would throw a blanket or shawl over the back to even the temperature up a bit. I have even seen specially made rugs with loops to hang over the ears of the top rail. This one has now been sold. Available to special order only, at round about £1200.

A copy (now in Australia!)of a very old nursing chair handed down through generations of a local family. Made completely in ash. Nursing chairs are lower and the seat has a different angle so that thighs are horizontal. This I'm told will avoid baby slipping off your lap on to the floor! My mother used one of these as well but to be honest I don't remember too well. If you decide to cut the legs down on an ordinary chair please don't ring me for the dimensions.

Available to special order. Price about £250

A comb back kitchen chair with a special wide back hand carved with the year to celebrate the millenium. As a souvenir of that occasion I predict that this chair will last considerably longer than the Dome. Components are beech with a 14 inch Elm seat, and finished with natural oils. The Danish oil enhances the difference in colour between the two kinds of wood.

Hand carved letters about 1inch (25mm high)cost around £3 extra per character, over the cost of a standard chair.

A fairly standard comb back chair but with shorter legs and different seat angle for knitting. Like the nursing chair the special design is intended to stop the business in hand slipping off your lap. Components for this one were beech with a 16 inch beech seat, and finished with water based sealer and waxed.

Available to special order.

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