Lambert Hitchcock Furniture

Vintage L. Hitchcock black stencilled Harvest painted maple dining chairs. A set of 4, beautifully crafted and of high quality manufacture in superb condition. Features black ebonis...

Rare antique L. Hitchcock early American pewter plate sconce candle holders. Dimensions: 7.75" x 3.75" x 10.75" (Width x Depth x Height)

Hitchcock Dining Chairs- Set of 4. Turned wood legs and frames with gold colored stenciled fruit motifs on the backrests.

A charming set of eight vintage Hitchcock chairs, featuring handwoven rush seats and classic stenciled fruit motifs on the backrests. These ch...

Vintage L. Hitchcock Black Stencil Harvest Decorated Cane Side Chair - a Pair. Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 34" H x 17.5" W x 18" D x 18" Seat height.

A pair of black and gold Lambert Hitchcock hand painted side chairs with traditional rush seats. Pillow box crest rails and flat back splats are stenciled with the harvest pattern. D...

Mid 20th Century Black harvest dining chairs, set of 4 by L. Hitchcock, Hitchcock Chair Company out of Connecticut. Just as one would expect with Hitchcock chairs, these are beautif...

Mid 20th Century Lambert Hitchcock Black Forest stenciled ladies' secretary writing desk or console table. Made of maple featuring black ebonized finish with gold accents and stencil...

American Sheraton painted and stencil decorated cane seat side chair. The stencil decorations on the seat back and the rear seat rail are faded and worn, but the maker's stencil is l...

Six L. Hitchcock Harvest Windsor dining chairs. Made from maple with a stenciled fan back, contoured seat and gold trim. The story of L. Hitcock begain in 1814 when 19-year-old Lambert Hitchcock of Chesire, Connecticut was apprenticed to Silas Cheney (1776-1821) of Litchfield as a novice woodworker. Cheney was the typical cabinetmaker of the period turning out well made examples of Federal sideboards and fancy painted chairs that caught young Hitchcock’s attention. While apprenticed to Cheney he became familiar with the work of Eli Terry, the famous clock maker and inventor. Terry had formed a partnership with Seth Thomas and his son, also named Seth Thomas, to produce the components of wooden clock works in an assembly line fashion. This little trick stuck in Hitchcock’s mind as he mapped his future. In 1818 Hitchcock completed his apprenticeship and moved to a tiny sawmill community in the township of Barkhamsted known as Fork-of-the-Rivers at the junction of the Farmington and Still Rivers. He found employment in the local sawmill which was owned by some family friends and settled in. He “homesteaded” a small room at the back of the mill and after tapping into the mill’s power source from the river he began to manufacture a small number of unfinished individual chair components. He sold these components to Yankee traders who sold them to mercantile stores as replacement parts for broken chairs. Business was good and demand soon outstripped his ability to meet it by himself. He hired some help to make the parts and began to expand his market, shipping chair components as far away as Charleston, South Carolina. He eventually graduated to making complete unfinished chairs...

Beautifully designed and painted pair of Lambert Hitchcock spindle ladder back chairs in great vintage condition. These are actual Lambert Hitchcock chairs. Measures 15.5" W x 18" D...

An American Lambert Hitchcock's child's chair from the 19th century, with black and gold finish and grape motifs. Created by American furniture manufacturer Lambert Hitchcock during ...