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Posted on September 19, 2007

I received an email recently from Sieur Jean-Francois Theoret, who is also a professional Windsor chairmaker.  His business is called Mount Royal Windsors.  Sieur J-F, (pronounced Gee-Eff) as he is known at The Institute, informed me that he has been accepted as a member of the Quebec Arts Council.  He will be exhibiting at the

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Windsor Recall

Posted on September 12, 2007

This one is too much fun to pass up.  I  thank  Sir Mark Ferraro for bringing it to my attention.                   On August 23, the U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a press release on its web site announcing a voluntary recall of  Windsor chairs by the retailer J. C. Penny.   You can see

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Why an Institute? Part II

Posted on September 6, 2007

This post is a continuation of the previous.  If you have not that one, you may want to begin with it, and then read this.  Research is another of The Institute’s activities.  My interest inWindsors and my curiosity about them is constant.  We are able to teach chairmaking effectively, because through research  I  figured out

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Why an Institute? Part I

Posted on August 30, 2007

Several years ago I was helping a student who was both a surgeon and a teacher at a medical institute.  He looked at me quizzically and asked, “The Windsor Institute?  An institute is a place that teaches,  researches, develops, and publishes.  Do you do all those things?”  Yup.  We sure do. My wife Susanna and

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The C-arm

Posted on August 24, 2007

The August 20 continuous arm chair class is wrapping up and 16 guys are putting finishing touches on their chairs.  Mine is done, and I am very pleased with the way it came out.  I am frequently asked what is my favorite chair?  There is no debate. It is the c-arm (our short hand for

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Why Windsors? Part II

Posted on August 20, 2007

In the last post I described Windsor chairs as perfection in design, durability, and comfort.  Consider the time period and the woodworking culture when Windsors were developed and  it is no surprise that the old guys  achieved such an extraordinary accomplishment.  Let’s first dispel  the false notion  of Windsor chairs as country chairs.  This misconception dates to the

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Why Windsors?

Posted on August 14, 2007

I just finished a telephone interview with a reporter in the mid-west.  She is writing an article about Windsor chairs.  I do several of these interviews a month.  They are a bit tedious, in that the questions are always the same, and the reporter is going to get a lot of it wrong anyway. However, I

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Sez Who?

Posted on August 7, 2007

Sir Ron Tatman is vacationing  here in Hampton and is helping  us  teach the August 6 sack back class.  His wife Jill and his two daughters (who have both taken sack back with their father) are at the beach surfing. While chatting with me this morning Sir Ron commented on  some of the things he has read

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A Duck Walks into a Windsor Chair Shop….

Posted on July 31, 2007

Everyone who has taken a Windsor chairmaking course here knows that humor is a major part of The Windsor Institute’s culture.  While we take chairmaking very seriously, there’s no reason we can’t have a lot of fun doing it.  My favorite part of  The Windsor Chronicles was our humor feature named “A Duck Walks into a

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Our Newest Immortal

Posted on July 28, 2007

During the July 23 sack back class Sir Gordon Keller became the most recent inductee into the Chairmakers Hall of Fame.  That makes Sir Gordon the most recent Immortal, and the first since 2004.  His innovation is known as Keller’s Colors.  The innovation solves a problem that has plagued Windsor chairmaking students as long as

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