What is a Windsor chair as opposed to any other chair?
A Windsor chair has a substantial, shaped wooden seat into which are fixed the backrest and the legs. Unlike many other designs of chair, there are no timbers that extend from below the seat to above the seat; everything is fixed into the seat. For this reason British-made Windsor chairs traditionally have a seat made from elm which is extremely strong and difficult to split. Historically, chair parts for Windsor chairs were made from green wood, in the woodland, by a skilled craftsman known as a bodger using splitting tools and a pole lathe.
