Crown-backed Side Chair with Cane Seat
This chair was made around 1865 – 1875. Although High Wycombe is best known for wooden-seated Windsor chairs, rush and cane seated chairs were also made here in large numbers and cane-seated chairs like this were typically used as bedroom furniture. Before 1900 cane...
Pitt Chair
This is the oldest Windsor chair in Wycombe Museum’s collection, made in the 1740s. At the time when this chair was made, High Wycombe was not yet a centre for chair making. This would take another 60-70 years. This chair was made in what is now part of Slough, by...
