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Title: Wallace Nutting Windsors : correct Windsor furniture.
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Nutting, Wallace, 1861-1941
Subjects: Furniture--Catalogs Decoration and ornament--Windsor style--Catalogs Trade catalogs--Furniture Trade catalogs--Decoration and ornament--Windsor style
Publisher: The Company, Saugus Center, Mass.
Contributing Library: Winterthur Museum Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ype of the arm chair onpage 43. But we do not regard the construc-tion as good. Such pieces are shown in theWallace Nutting Handbook of AmericanWindsors. Many other variants, some good, also appearin the same volume (a little book of 120 illus-trations). But everything which experiencehas shown to be desirable has been set forth,here. Some three thousand legitimate varia- tions of the Windsor style exist, without includ-ing the Sheraton type in which the turningsof legs, rungs, and spindles degenerated to sticks— the first fruits of machine work. The idea of the childs chair in precisely thesame style as the grown-ups chair is veryappealing. There was one proud father whoconstructed a twin high chair. We find very few low baby chairs for thesimple reason that few then or now will go tothe same expense for a little chair as for a bigone. Childrens side chairs (low) have alsobeen made, but as a rule low stools have beenmade to do duty as chairs as well a< for the feetof adults. 30)
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No. 408 No. 408. Bow-back Bent-arm Windsor This is the most usual form of arm Windsor. sides, is oval in shape. This type never has The arm rail is bent, but terminates in a small a deep seat, carved knuckle. Seat 21 2 inches wide x 16% inches deep; The seat, instead of having a ramp at the height 38 inches. No. 444 This differs from the above only in having out this catalogue the Rhode Island leg is ap-the Rhode Island style of legs, — the hollow propriate for any chair with the usual North-taper, as seen on side chair on page 37. Through- ern, that is straight, taper turning. (31) Ell ^k**«*4a«*!t^;

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