A Visit to Winterthur

Over the summer the family and I headed out to Winterthur.  WInterthur is the historic home of the Dupont fmaily which has gardens and a museum.  They have a decent amoutn of furniture on exhibit and two nice woodworking exhibits, one of which is the Dominy shop.  The Dominy shop is an intact woodworking shop that was discovered undisturbed since the 1900's.  For woodworking this is a great place to visit.

This display is a full tool chest including the chest and its contents.

These are two furniture examples that were displayed with the tool chest, I cannot recall if they related.

These are two 17th century carved pieces.

The next display we looked at was the Dominy shop.  It is very cool to see a period shop fully setup as it would have been at the time.

These are some patterns used in chair making.

 Here were some really nice pieces that actually came out of the Dominy shop.

This was a very fun trip that had a good bit of woodworking history.  There is much more to see at Winterthur than the woodworking exhibits, but of course being a woodworker I found these the most interesting.