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Offers handcrafted furniture featuring gilded stenciling, in hard maple and cherry. Provides history and showroom.
What Are Hitchcock Chairs? Hitchcock chairs look like any ordinary chair. At first glance, the only thing of note about them is the centuries-old design. These chairs are mostly black, with many painted leaves, flowers, and fruits. They have rush seats but can also have solid seats.
May 17, 2010 · Everyone knows what a Hitchcock chair is, right? The small, rickety chairs with the rush or cane seats, usually painted black with lots of leaves and flowers and fruit painted all over them. Sometimes they have solid seats showing dark natural wood surrounded by black paint and gold stripes and more leaves painted on the back rail.
Jul 11, 2019 · Using a variety of metal stencils, as many as five different ones on a single chair, different colors of metallic powders were applied by brush to produce the mostly floral designs seen on the ubiquitous “Hitchcock” chair of the 1820s.
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By 1840, Lambert Hitchcock had made and sold 200,000 chairs. The chairs sold for .49 to $1.50 and sold as far west as Chicago and as far south as Charleston, S.C. Though his furniture was wildly popular, Hitchcock was not much of a businessman.
