Download or read book Shaker Tradition and Design written by Milton C. Rose and published by Random House Value Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaker Design written by June Sprigg and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having lived and worked with surviving Shakers of Maine and New Hampshire, June Sprigg has drawn objects from forty collections to celebrate the Shaker tradition.
Download or read book In the Shaker Tradition written by Lesley Duvall and published by Friedman/Fairfax Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy a stunning photographic tour of warm, comfortable rooms featuring quintessential Shaker furniture. Focus on their clean lines, quality workmanship, and beautiful simplicity, and how these fine designs influenced later furniture makers and craftspeople. "This fine book features page after page of sturdy, practical furnishings...all revealed in detail."--"Country Almanac."
Download or read book Shaker Inspirations written by Christian Becksvoort and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaker Architecture written by Herbert F. Schiffer and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a small religious community the Shakers had a major impact on American architecture and furniture design. Many modern designs can trace their roots directly to the Shaker tradition. In this study, each of the Shaker communities is represented with very interesting photographs of the buildings that made up their world. A detailed text completes the study.
Download or read book Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware written by Ejner Handberg and published by Countryman Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carefully detailed, time-tested guides to building Shaker furniture and woodenware.
Download or read book Selling Shaker written by Stephen Bowe and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The simple yet striking lines of Shaker design grace much of the furniture we see in high-end department stores, and beautiful examples of it adorn the pages of Architectural Digest and House Beautiful. How did this style evolve from its origins in a humble, small religious community to the international design phenomenon it is today? This illustrated study explores the emergence of the Shaker style and how it was vigorously promoted by scholars and artists into the prominence it now enjoys. The heart of the Shaker style lies in the religious movement founded in the eighteenth century, where Stephen Bowe and Peter Richmond begin their chronicle. From there, the authors chart the evolution of the style into the twentieth century—particularly in the hands of design media, scholars, and art institutions. These Shaker “agents” repositioned Shaker style continuously—from local vernacular to high culture and then popular culture. Drawing on a rich array of sources, including museum catalogs, contemporary design magazines, and scholarly writings, Selling Shaker illustrates in detail how the Shaker style entered the general design consciousness and how the original aesthetic was gradually diluted into a generic style for a mass audience. A wholly original and fascinating study of American design and consumption, Selling Shaker is a unique resource for collectors, scholars, and anyone interested in the cultural history of a design aesthetic.
Download or read book Shaker Built written by Paul Rocheleau and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The team that introduced Shaker life, work, and design to America and the world, in such successful books as Shaker and Shaker Design, here presents the ultimate visual work on the unique melding of form and function that created the Shaker look. 200 color illustrations.
Download or read book Making Authentic Shaker Furniture written by John Gerald Shea and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This splendid book describes and illustrates in detail how the Shakers designed, built, and finished their furniture and household articles. With its detailed text as well as over 250 photographs and measured drawings for over 80 classic pieces, it offers woodworkers and furniture enthusiasts a practical guide to the essentials of replicating a broad range of designs long admired for their sturdy practicality and their spare, elegant beauty. The book first chronicles and describes the Shaker movement and the Shaker way of living, worshiping, and working. It then explores the Shaker approach to furniture design (from chests and chairs to boxes and baskets), construction (including all joinery techniques), and finishing (including recipes for finishes). Three important sections of the book depict dozens of classic Shaker designs, complete with measured drawings. The designs include Shaker "smallcraft" such as a cutting board, scoop, candle sconce, peg-leg footstool and towel rack; more substantial "utility designs" such as a dough bin, cradle, dry sink, butcher block, and bonnet box; and furniture classics such as a Harvard trestle table, maple chair, lap desk, sewing chest, rocking chair, bed, settee and chest of drawers — each in its own distinctive way defining the simple, practical grace of Shaker design.
Download or read book In the Shaker Style written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaker Design written by Jean M. Burks and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reaching an apogee of 6,000 members in the years just before the Civil War, the Shaker movement was the most extensive, enduring, and successful utopian society ever established in America. Leaving Manchester, England, in 1776 to avoid persecution, the Shakers crossed the Atlantic and during the next 50 years established 19 villages from Maine to Kentucky. The Shakers were guided by the principles of utility, honesty, and order in both their work and worship, and this belief system influenced the physical expression of the goods they produced for use at home and for sale outside their communities. This lovely book presents a wide array of extraordinarily fine examples of Shaker furniture, household objects, textiles, religious drawings, and items made to sell to the "world's people" (non-Shakers). The book's expert contributors discuss Shaker design in relation to the furniture they constructed, the products they sold, their gift drawings and spirituality, and their rejection of American Fancy design. The book also considers the powerful inspiration Shaker design has provided for diverse modern and contemporary designers, including George Nakashima, Roy McMakin, Thomas Moser, and Scandinavian furniture makers.
Download or read book Hands to Work and Hearts to God written by Theodore Elliot Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Shaker Style Building Furniture Inspired by the Shaker Tradtion written by Fine Woodworking and published by Taunton Classics. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back by popular demand, these classic woodworking titles from Fine Woodworking magazine are filled with first-rate information that is as timeless now as it was when first published. Rich with history, Shaker furniture has long been admired for its beautiful, yet simple, craftsmanship. In the Shaker Style presents the ideas and techniques of more than 15 contemporary artisans. Inside you'll find instruction for over 10 projects, from Shaker chairs to bookscases. Detailed illustrations and photographs accompany each project. In addition, you'll see how distinctive Shaker details can be adapted for use in today's furniture. Collected from the pages of the most authoritative voice in woodworking, Fine Woodworking magazine, In the Shaker Style is an essential resource for anyone who appreciates Shaker furniture. Includes: Complete instructions for building a wall shelf, bathroom vanity, Shaker round stand, Shaker revolver, and more Techniques for incorporating Shaker design details in contemporary furniture Design inspiration for entertainment centers, cupboards, and corner tables
Download or read book The Essential Book of Shaker written by David Larkin and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devoted to the origins, elements, and forms of this graceful, efficient style.
Download or read book Shaker written by David Stocks and published by Editions Assouline. This book was released on 2015-02-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief history of the Shakers by David Stocks -- On Shaker furniture by Jerry V. Grant -- The influences of Shaker furniture on twentieth-century furniture by Sir Terence Conran -- Masterpieces of Shaker design -- About the Shaker Museum, Mount Lebanon.
Download or read book Shaker life Work and Art written by June Sprigg and published by Stewart, Tabori, & Chang. This book was released on 1987 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the Shaker's origins, beliefs, work, and daily life. Over 200 color photographs illustrate their architecture and furniture.
Download or read book Shaker Design written by June Sprigg and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1986 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shaker movement in America began in 1774 when Mother Ann Lee emigrated from Manchester, England, with a small group of followers, and settled in New York State. Despite impoverished beginnings, the Shakers flourished in the early nineteenth century, and by 1840 there were four to six thousand members living in eighteen principal communities from Maine to Kentucky. Turning away from society, they lived in large families that were both celibate and communal. In striving for heaven on earth, they created a visual environment of such harmony and quiet power that it continues to impress observers today, when the Shakers have all but passed from the American scene. The many works presented in this beautiful volume reveal the Shaker commitment to excellence in all matters. The chairs, cases of drawers, work stands, baskets, oval boxes, wheelbarrows, stoves, looms, and even tailoring tools have a purity of form that transcends mere utility and elevates our appreciation of the object beyond a sense of function. June Sprigg, who has lived and worked with the surviving Shakers of Maine and New Hampshire, has studied Shaker life and art since 1972. For this volume she has drawn objects from forty collections, including extant Shaker villages, the work of some thirty known individuals, and as many artists who remain anonymous. Book jacket.
