28/05/2026
These aren't just stools. They're chairs, with their backs sawn off!
Sometime in the 1800s, a pair of child's Windsor chairs had their backs removed and were put back to work as stools. The original turned beech legs are still there. So are the mortise holes in the seat tops where the back spindles used to sit — the last trace of their former life.
It's such a perfectly practical, waste nothing piece of 19th-century thinking. And after 200 years, the elm seats have the most incredible deep, warm patina.
