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Wallace Nutting said of this style of chair,"This chair, like all of its style, is open to the objection that the arm almost always breaks at the sharp bend. Yet the type is graceful and light. It will be noticed that chairs with brace backs are not so likely as plain-backed chairs to have nine plain spindles, because the two raked bracing spindles require space. The ideal chair would have eight or nine spindles and the braces."
Of this particular chair he writes, "Weighing but twelve pounda, this is the lightest of the Windsor Arm Chairs. Stretchers, legs and back are gracefully turned and strongly built -the back and arms being one continous piece. Beautiful and generally useful, it lends itself especially to the dining room. Two of these chairs when used with six of the No. 301 make a most attractive and appropriate dining room set."
"This chair is the supreme example of daintyness and lightness in the Windsor type. It weighs only four ounces more than the side chair. The arm is scrolled on the outside."
Size: Seat, 16 inches wide; 17 inches deep; height 39 inches over all.
Material: Seat, Country Pine; Hickory bow. Maple or Birch turnings.
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