The definitive origins of the Windsor chair furniture type remain unknown. The name first appeared in Great Britain in 1724, referring to seating furniture from Buckinghamshire, in which county the town of High Wycombe had become a centre of English furniture production. The chair supposedly derives its name from the nearby town of Windsor, England, from where chairs were shipped via the River Thames to London. During the first half of the eighteenth century, English immigrants brought the Windsor chairs to America, where an independent, regionally differentiated production of Windsor chairs partly continues to this day.
