The genius is often in simplicity. This realisation is all that took Jonathan Glatt to pivot his métier from a jeweller to a product designer — renewing and glamorising the innocent influence of the classic Windsor Chair, a fabled objet from the bygone centuries. He first saw an authentic early-period Windsor at Sotheby’s as an intern in the American Furniture Department. “It was love at first sight,” he tells us. Fast forward to now, the founder of O&G Studio, Jonathan has been carving Windsor’s modern interpretations for the last 15 years, recently hosting the largest collection of original, handmade Windsor chairs in production today at NYCXDESIGN.

A carefully choreographed construction that balances the competing interests of function, material, technology and style. In short, a perfect chair. He quotes in his book Anthology: The O&G Collection of Modern Windsor Chairs. But this isn’t a story as much about the chair’s historical past (its true origins unknown even today) as it is about Windsor’s irresistible relevance in the present day.