Federal Dining Room Chairs

Set of 8 Federal style mahogany dining chairs comprised of 2 armchairs and 6 side chairs with upholstered seats with web construction. The chairs with backrests displaying foliate, ...

Set of 10 Kindel Federal Style Shield Back Mahogany Dining Chairs Dimensions : Side chairs - 38" Tall X 20.25" Wide X 19.25" Deep SH - 19.5" Arm chai...

A lovely set of eight chairs with arched back, urn shaped back plate, saber front legs, splayed back legs, mahogany veneer over hardwood, and woven rush seats. From the mid to late 1...

A set of six Windsor farmhouse dining chairs. Made of oak featuring black painted finish with a bentwood slatted sheaf back, turned legs and formed seat.

A nice set of 8 Hitchcock style chairs, late Federal Period circa 1840, in original faux-mahogany painted finish with stencil and parcel gilt dec...

A exceptionally graceful and stately set from Bevan Funnell. Set of eight mahogany shield back dining chairs from Bevan Funnell featuring six side chairs and two arm chairs with shie...

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...

A set of eight antique Federal dining chairs offer tiger maple construction with stylized scroll form rail over slat back, caned seats and splay legs, c1830. Measures- 33.5''H x 1...

A set of eight Federal dining chairs offer carved mahogany frames with shield backs having central urns over upholstered seats and raised on tapered legs with spade feet, 20th centur...

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 unusually good set of six maple wood Hitchcock style chairs with rush seats. In excellent original antique condition. Sturdy and Sound. Rece...