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Out of this world: shaker design, past, present, and future.

The Magazine Antiques

| August 01, 2007 | Burks, Jean M. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Brant Publications, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Shakers have always lived in communities separated from "the World"--people who do not share their religious beliefs--yet they have never been completely isolated from it. The physical and spiritual intersections between the Shakers and the various worlds outside their communities, and the crosscurrent effects over time of those interactions on Shaker and non-Shaker design, are explored in this article.

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Classic Shaker furniture design as it emerged in the early nineteenth century combined two themes: a vernacular interpretation of the prevailing neoclassical aesthetic together with the elimination of unnecessary decorative details ...

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