The Essential Book Of Shaker

Author : John Kassay
Publisher : Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870232756
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of Shaker Furniture written by John Kassay and published by Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive, amply illustrated guide illustrates the simple, functional furniture style developed during the Shaker movement--a successful experiment in communitarian living--and traces its evolution from the Colonial styles of New York and New England

Author : David Larkin
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Tessa Evelegh
Publisher : Ward Lock Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780706374148
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Shaker Style written by Tessa Evelegh and published by Ward Lock Limited. This book was released on 1995 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents illustrated instructions for home decorating using elements which reflect the Shaker style.

Author : June Sprigg
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393305449
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : David Stocks
Publisher : Editions Assouline
ISBN 13 : 9781614284277
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Tom Moser
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1440313083
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How To Build Shaker Furniture written by Tom Moser and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shakers produced many incredible furniture objects that we continue to venerate today. For the woodworker the fascination is often rooted in the essential simplicity of the work. Interest in Shaker design is as strong today as it was when the first edition of this book was published in 1977, possibly stronger. This ongoing interest is the direct result of the inherent beauty of Shaker design—beauty that stems not only from form, but from superb workmanship, a commitment to utility and a total understanding of material.

Author : John G. Shea
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486138976
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Authentic Shaker Furniture written by John G. Shea and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-09-19 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 250 photographs and measured drawings for over 80 classic Shaker designs: cradle, dry sink, trestle table, lap desk, rocking chair, many more. 262 halftones. 140 black-and-white line illustrations.

Author : Michael K. Komanecky
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847842622
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakers written by Michael K. Komanecky and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important book on Shaker art and life, offering a fresh look at a style that has endured through centuries and continues to inspire designers and homeowners. This book presents the elegantly austere and simply styled objects of the Shakers in the context of their faith and community at Mount Lebanon, N.Y., the spiritual and administrative center of the Shaker world. Outstanding examples of furniture, textiles, tools, and other objects-drawn primarily from the collection of Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon-bring the fascinating world of the Shakers to life. The book also explores the equally compelling material culture of Sabbathday Lake in New Gloucester, Maine, the last active Shaker community, and how this group of Shakers continued to thrive while other Shaker communities elsewhere gradually disappeared. Accompanying a major exhibition organized by the Farnsworth Art Museum, this book presents a new and authentic perspective on the Shaker community. Specially commissioned photography, archival imagery, essays by prominent scholars, and a firsthand interview with a member of the Sabbathday Lake Shaker community deepen our understanding of this influential movement and style.

Author : Henry Plummer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025300778X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stillness and Light written by Henry Plummer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-11 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaker buildings have long been admired for their simplicity of design and sturdy craftsmanship, with form always following function. Over the years, their distinctive physical characteristics have invited as much study as imitation. Their clean, unadorned lines have been said to reflect core Shaker beliefs such as honesty, integrity, purity, and perfection. In this book, Henry Plummer focuses on the use of natural light in Shaker architecture, noting that Shaker builders manipulated light not only for practical reasons of illumination but also to sculpt a deliberately spiritual, visual presence within their space. Stillness and Light celebrates this subtly beautiful aspect of Shaker innovation and construction, captured in more than 100 stunning photographs.

Author : Charles R. Muller
Publisher : Schiffer Classic Reference Boo
ISBN 13 : 9780764317392
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shaker Chair written by Charles R. Muller and published by Schiffer Classic Reference Boo. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clearly a labor of love and a definitive reference. The attribution of chairs as Shaker and the association of a chair with a particular community is based on the authors' consideration of oral tradition, provenance, place of discovery, visual examination, evaluation of design features, historic photographs, and information found in written sources. Abundantly illustrated with carefully chosen photos and purposeful drawings. 9x12" Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR