Set of Four Vintage 1950s Ercol Model 243 Windsor Dining Chairs

One of Ercol’s scarcely seen dining chair models and as such, a wonderful snapshot of the evolution of their much loved Windsor chair, still made today. This set date to the 1950s and was only briefly manufactured. It was a transitional design that sits between the CC41 post-war Windsors and the later D-shaped seat models that got more refined with the signature chamfered edge and seats that widened (to accommodate the nation’s growing bottoms?!) as the years went by. The 243s are characterised by their curved fiddle-shaped seats and flat sides. They’re often passed by as people assume they’re Ercol imposters but they are the real deal, marking a very specific moment in Ercol’s history, and we love them for that.