Shaker Design
Subtitle: Out of this World (Published in Association with the Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: April 15, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780300137286
Subjects: Decorative arts & crafts; History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; Art; Art & Art Instruction; Northeastern & North Atlantic states; Americana; Design - Furniture; Folk & Outsider Art; Art / Design / Furniture; General; 19th century; Decorative arts; History; Shaker decorative arts; Shakers; United States
Description: "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 book presents an array of examples of Shaker furniture, household objects, textiles, religious drawings, and items made to sell to the "world's people" (non-Shakers). The book's 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."--Jacket.