I’m related to Arthur Randall. Great bit of history. My grandfather John Randall had the factory in high Wycombe making chairs.

We bought our dining room furniture table 6 chairs in 1973 and the Windsor rocking chair in 1976. They are still as good as they were new. Thanks from Ontario Canada.

Wonderful bit of film, some of it in Turville is right outside my house!

i want to work here i am windsoe

2:04 - Great little scene here; the bodger (Arthur Randall ?) expertly flipping the stave and giving a friendly nod to posterity. I don't think he would have expected that green-wood and hand tool woodworking would have a renaissance 100 years later. Shaving horses are again being built and top quality hand tools are again produced. Long Live the 'Luddites' !

I do not think that my iPhone makes me a better man; making that chair would.

Just the other day I saw that eurcol chair leg shape popping out of a Skip,. Well I never . It was a set of the 3 legged pebble tables with only the largest showing any kind of ware. What a beautiful sensation to they are to feel, hold and looks at. Connecting with the more tasteful aspects of the 70s in an instant. And then I d Saw how much the go for on ebay.

I've got Windsor, and wish I had more. Beautiful and comfortable.

Fantastic! The beauty of this is that the legs were of split stock - nothing cross grained or spliced together. I imagine most of the chairs shown here still are in service!

I have my Evergreen chair - all original cushions and covers in excellent condition - a wonderful piece of English furniture- love the chair. Born and bred in Wooburn Green, so proud to own a piece of English Heritage..

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Ercol furniture will never outdate it will always be in fashion, sheer class. and beautiful.

Many thanks for posting

Elm grain is wonderful. Traditional woodworking at its best

About 25 years ago I met Bill Cotton, (and his wife, who was as enthusiastic as him about their adventures), the chap who wrote "The English Regional Chair" and I'm sure it was his collection which started The Chair Museum in High Wycombe, I'm sure I'll be told if I'm wrong! Very interesting and well used reference book by many restorers and dealers. Windsor Chairs are in my opinion one of the most comfortable wooden chairs anywhere on the world, and their variety, colour, style is a real treat to enjoy. Buy one now, they are often unbelievably cheap, and have been for a number of years, yet they will last another hundred if treated nicely! So! "Are you sitting Comfortably?" Edit or delete this

Ercol furniture, can be the best in the world and some of it the worst. Go sit on a butterfly chair and you will see what I mean. Style over substance

bravo guys and ercol .

Even in 1935 this method was considered ancient. And yet enthusiastic people still do it! Love rhat

Lovely, lovely, lovely

my grandfather and his brothers were bodgers near stokenchurch in the 1950s

Amazing...good job

What a beautiful thing!

How can I remove the polish from an old set and repolish?

Health and Safety non existant!

Love Ercol furniture we have quite a few pieces from their classic range

Now he has to work at that pace all the time...;-)

what is the best way to remove the plug that covers the screws?

Great!!! Thank you.

Will buy one today on the strength of the artistry and heritage.

One thing I notice All those hard working folk are thin.Compare that to factory workers today? Thanks for posting the video.

Great piece of film!

I am very pleased to have stumbled upon this. Thank you for sharing!

Hi Hans, glad you like the chair. Good luck with the restoration. If you get stuck on the cushions we can always sell you some! Just take a look at the ercol reupholstery website, you can find a link from our main website under "ercol reCover" or just search "ercol reupholstery" in Google. Best wishes, ercol.

Thank you! very much so. I found a rocking chair left at the garbage years ago. I am now restauring it and got interested in it's history. Found the website and got mesmerized. I loved the chair allready but now I learn more of it's soul so to speak. It's the Grandfathers rocking chair no. 316. I hope I have enough skill to make cushions but there much to learn on the internet. Thank you so much for the kind reply,kind regards Hans metzger.

"The Old Man" is Barry's father, Lucian R Ercolani who founded ercol in 1920. Our current Chairman, Edward Tadros, is "The Old Man's" grandson. There is a timeline on our website that has highlights from our history if you're interested.

"The Old Man".. would this be Barry Ercolani?

The lives of some very ordinary people with remarkable stories to tell; thanks for posting this film.

i have 4 of these chairs that I pulled off the municipal tip years ago. With a bit of tlc they're still going strong. Great film btw

I have a house full of retro ercol furniture. I wish Ercol would do a heritage range of fabrics and recreate the ones that they used and stocked in the 50s/60s/70s.

It is very good to introduce for us. My favorite furniture!! Yoshi

A treasure of a film. Thank you for posting it.

thank you for posting this

I like it. From ercol-japan.

Thanks for the comment. This is a recent video - 2009. It's how we make the chair to this day!

great to see how fast a sustainable chair can be produced - without glues - and children cannot put their heads between sticks - looks lovely

please ercol can we have more videos like this

I love Ercol....so many products made today are cheap rubbish but ERCOL is good old fashioned proper quality.....I pine for yesteryear.... Ikea cheapness is useful but a lot of Ikea stuff has no soul ie chipboard with veneer Great cars, goods that lasted, great Mullard valves (stopped production many years back but never been equalled in quality) .... I must be getting old...