Federal Chairs

A fine set of eight mahogany Federal style upholstered dining chairs including two arm chairs and six side chairs, with stepped crest rail on each chair with inlaid panel, reticulate...

"Eight handmade 18th century inspired windsor dining chairs, circa 1950s. Made from walnut featuring bentwood slatted back and saddle seat. Features 6 bow back chairs and 2 sack back...

2 S. Bent & Bros Hitchcock style colonial windsor thumb back side chairs. Made from maple with a black finish, stenciled back and gold trim. S. Bent & Brot...

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...

An antique set of six federal dining chairs offers mahogany construction with shield backs with carved wheat and raised square and tapered legs terminating in spade feet, c1920 Me...

Vintage 1950s rare Kittinger Furniture black leather chair that features caning and caster wheels. Made in the USA and still in great condition, especially given its age. That said, ...

Pair of Vintage Library Chairs from the Carlyle Hotel, newly upholstered in Romo upholstery fabric and refinished in antique white.