Uncommon Chairs &#8211

ByBrina

This past weekend I had the good fortune to accompany Roy Underhill and Peter Ross on a visit to a chair exhibit at the North Carolina History Center in New Bern, N.C. It is a collection of 75 turned “common” chairs from northeastern North Carolina. The guest curators, Mark Wenger and Hiram Perkinson, did a wonderful job of gathering and documenting the chairs for the exhibit.

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The angled rungs on this chair are original, made to lean back. The chair is  from the Hertford County, N.C., courthouse.
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This walnut chair  from Northhampton County, N.C., was my favorite. It’s appeal might be because the over bore on the right front leg reminds me of something I would do.

The exhibit runs thru Sept. 17, and is free to the public. Tryon Palace is a couple blocks away from the history center and well worth checking out, too.

— Will Myers

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