Hand crafted chairs

Much of our wood comes from trees we have felled ourselves. Getting this close to our raw material means that our chairs will never be identical, though clearly children of the same parents. Our chairs are mostly Windsor chairs, i.e., with the legs jointed into a slab seat and the back rest built off the slab. We also make frame, or ladderback, chairs with seats of woven bark or cord. We can get the seats rushed if you prefer. We stay in the wide range of the English country tradition, partly because it is so wide, and partly because the chairs are so comfortable and so comely that it would be presumptuous to imagine one could improve on them by radical alteration. Nonetheless, each piece is unique.

Unlike much other furniture, chairs are very personal things. They have to put up with considerable stress and strain. It matters that each person should find one that is comfortable for him or her. None of us have been mass-produced, and we will not necessarily fit into a mass-produced product. We therefore encourage our customers to come to us and try out some of the chairs we use ourselves, to ensure that we make ones that our customer will be happy with.

Chairs of ours have been voted “Best in Show” in 2000, 2005 and again in 2010, at the annual national competitions staged by the Association of Pole-lathe Turners.