Re: Windsor Chairs: Looking to Purchase & Questions
At one time I was the top-selling Windsor Chair store in the USA. I carried five different makers and would get 220 chairs in my Freightliner per trip. We didn't even have the first piece of leather upholstery on the floor of my store! My, how times have changed. The Windsor chair market was hot in the 80's and 90's but it died about 10 years ago. Where I used to sell 3,000 per year, not I may sell twelve to twenty.. For that reason, I have cut back to just one supplier - Treharn - as the market demand for them has evaporated.
The Warren Chair Works Wakefield is a beauty of a chair, but I dropped the line when Bob Barrow sold the company after starting and running it for 35 years. The new owners didn't even have the decency to call me to introduce themselves and immediately set down new rules and policies that didn't set well with me, so that - as they say - was that. I'm sure you can still purchase them, but I am only doing Treharn at this time.
Thanks!
Duane Collie
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