TURNED SIDE CHAIRS

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries settlers of diverse European origins settled in Georgia’s piedmont.  Georgia material culture scholar Dale L. Couch has identified evidence of their cultural assimilation in a group of chairs.  The earliest chairs in this group, with their peaked- slat backs and distinctively turned front stretchers, reflect the probable Germanic origins of their makers.  Over time, as the European accents of their makers became less pronounced, these chairs became less Germanic and more Georgian.