Posted 7 years ago
cindyjune
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I am curious of the age of this piece. It is so comfortable for a wood chair. I saw one like it in a movie about the Dust Bowl. That's about all I know.
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You have a gorgeous Windsor Chair!! Now let’s address that “American as apple pie” sensation you may get from looking at these chairs. There’s a good reason for that, and it’s two words: founding fathers. In North America, the Windsor chair form was first used in Philadelphia where the chair became hugely popular around the time of the Revolution. The chairs were such an important part of the life in the new country that Thomas Jefferson was said to have written the Declaration of Independence in one of these chairs and Martha Washington had needlework cushions made for her bow-back Windsor chairs