Bern Chandley

Bern Chandley makes traditional and modern windsor chairs at his studio in Thomastown near Melbourne. His Instagram has many films and photographs of his process and design.

Bern Chandley

Australian Furniture maker Bern Chandley works on variations of the Windsor chair, this is his low back, stick chair, diner.

Mikko Hannula

It is notoriously difficult to photograph furniture in an exhibition so I was glad to find Mikko Hanula's furniture represented online. This is his digital reimagining of a Windsor chair  creating a faceted metal chair from a 3D scan, which is currently on display as part of the annual VAS 2016 exhibition Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh as part of until Dec 27th.

"This project started as a thesis research project. I was trying to find out what kind of things people cherish in their homes and for what reasons. More than 50 % of all the respondents I interviewed mentioned memories as a reason for cherishing their special possessions. Although personal memories tend to evolve in time through different occasions and experiences, it is possible to make everyday objects to preserve history. Furniture designs like the Windsor chair are becoming relics in the eyes of the younger generation and they desperately need some updating to become appealing again in our digital age. From a manufacturing point of view this sort of digital translation opens up whole new possibilities and market opportunities for traditional products," Mikko Hannula

William Warren I

Having made this chair as part of the Bodging Millano project from green wood William Warren returned to his studio and developed his sunray chair 

A traditionally constructed Windsor chair where the spindles in the back do not run into the seat block, but instead fan out from the lower back rail giving a sun rise effect. William Warren has a furniture and product design consultancy and is a Senior Lecturer at London Metropolitan University and he also lectures in Kingston University, Goldsmiths College, Camberwell College of Art and Central Saint Martins.

Arūnas Sukarevičius & Shannon Payton

Designed by Arūnas Sukarevičius & Shannon Payton at Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the widen chair is a wide seated interpretation of the classical Windsor chair produced by etc.etc.