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Turned Spindle Side Chair

Source: Wikimedia Commons • CC BY-SA

Vernacular / Colonial

Turned Spindle Side Chair

Anonymous (Country Craft), 1820

History

A humble farmhouse side chair whose lathe-turned spindles and pegged joints show the honest carpentry of 19th-century country workshops.

Designer

Anonymous (Country Craft)

Movement

Vernacular / Colonial

Year / Era

1820 · 19th Century

Materials

Walnut

Style

Country

Licensing

CC BY-SA

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