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New and improved.(Books About Antiques)(The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture by Timothy D. Rieman, who makes reproductions of Shaker furniture, and Jean M. Burks, a curator and scholar of Shaker furniture, first appeared in 1993, published by Harry N. Abrams. The book has now been republished in an enlarged edition that includes illustrations of some three hundred more pieces of furniture and color illustrations of a great deal of the furniture shown in the first edition. Finally, there is a new chapter entitled "The Shaker Palette," embodying many of the findings of Susan Buck, who published the results of her research in three articles in 1995.
Whereas much Shaker furniture today has been stripped of paint, it was originally bright with color, mixed by the Shakers from scratch until the late nineteenth century. Buck has demonstrated this by the scientific analysis of pinhead-sized morsels of cross-sections ...
- The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture.
- Magazine article from: Interior Design Abercrombie, Stanley July 1, 2004 700+ words
The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture by Timothy O. Rieman and Jean M. Burks Atglen, Pennsylvania...Publishing, $125 576 pages, 1,044 illustrations (698 color) Shaker furniture, proto-modern in its simplicity, is one of the highest...
- The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques June 1, 2004 700+ words
By Timothy D. Rieman and Jean M. Burks MA-240 Our price $125.00 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] This enormous study was first published in 1993 to wide acclaim. It has recently been enlarged to include more than three hundred new illustrations and many colorplates of works published earlier in black and
- Shop Drawings Of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware.(Brief article)(Book review)
- Newspaper article from: Internet Bookwatch May 1, 2008 700+ words
Shop Drawings Of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware Ejner Handberg...Handberg was a master of the Shaker furniture and woodworking style. Now...Press as "Shop Drawings Of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware" providing...
- PRIVATE DEAL KEEPS SHAKER FURNITURE IN NEW LEBANON.(Local)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) July 31, 1990 700+ words
...entrepreneur will allow a collection of Shaker furniture worth millions ofdollars to remain...pieces of its large collection of Shaker furniture to collectors in recent years to meet...Faul, hopes to keep as much of the Shaker furniture as possible at the historic site and...
- The evolution of design in Shaker furniture.
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Burks, Jean M. May 1, 1994 700+ words
Shaker furniture design was not static, evoolved...has been focused on the classic Shaker furniture produced from about 1820 to 1850...Mother was at our gestrooms--no Shaker furniture, just modem things--probably...
- A spiritual element gives special appeal to Shaker furniture
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times John Dorsey November 7, 1986 700+ words
...and a sense of pride in it." As well they might, for Shaker furniture, so much reviled in its day, is now an immensely desirable...Columbian and Navajo art, she says. Of those who collect Shaker furniture, "Some people regard Shaker pieces purely as works of...
- Craftsmanship, Quality Made Shaker Furniture Famous
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times MOLLY MILLIGAN March 5, 1995 700+ words
Q. Can you tell how Shaker furniture became so popular when the Shaker community was so small? A. The Shakers were religious spinoffs from the Quakers. In the mid...
- God is in the details. (Shaker furniture)
- Magazine article from: Interior Design Blake, Peter October 1, 1994 700+ words
...recent decades. But their legacy--that part of it that is of special interest to some of us today--is full of life. Shaker furniture is being manufactured in several workshops all over the country, and the serene, understated minimalism of Shaker architecture...
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