DE ARCHITECTS
1/1
S-205
year 1800
material wood
source title Design Museum of the 20th-century Design
info Original Shaker furniture and reproductions now command high prices and have attracted a dedicated following. The Shakers were originally an English nonconformist sect founded by Ann Lee in Manchester. In the late eighteenth century, in search of religious freedom, Mother Lee and a group of followers emigrated to the East Coast of America where they established a series of communities. The Shakers rejected all modern inventions, living a life of refined austerity with they translated into their furniture and household objects. Shaker craftsmen encapsulated their moral beliefs in spare and simple interior and furniture—ladder back chairs, tables and boxes—which owed something of their aesthetic to late eighteenth-century English furniture. What they added was an idiosyncratic element of invention, introducing ideas such as fitted furniture and the distinctive rails on which they hung clothes and chairs.
read more
year 1800
material wood
source title Design Museum of the 20th-century Design
info Original Shaker furniture and reproductions now command high prices and have attracted a dedicated following. The Shakers were originally an English nonconformist sect founded by Ann Lee in Manchester. In the late eighteenth century, in search of religious freedom, Mother Lee and a group of followers emigrated to the East Coast of America where they established a series of communities. The Shakers rejected all modern inventions, living a life of refined austerity with they translated into their furniture and household objects. Shaker craftsmen encapsulated their moral beliefs in spare and simple interior and furniture—ladder back chairs, tables and boxes—which owed something of their aesthetic to late eighteenth-century English furniture. What they added was an idiosyncratic element of invention, introducing ideas such as fitted furniture and the distinctive rails on which they hung clothes and chairs.
read more
