Compliments of the Season

As families come together for the Festive Season and sit down to dinner they may find themselves around a dining table with 'ordinary' dining chairs along both sides and a 'carver' chair at each end of the table.  The carver chair is generally taken to mean any dining chair with armrests and the name is believed to have originated from chairs taken to America on the Mayflower in 1620 by one John Carver, who later became the first governor of the Plymouth Colony.