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Author: Scott T. Swank
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this pioneering study, historian Scott T. Swank reveals the links between the daily life of the Shakers and their art and architecture. 250 illustrations, 150 in color.
Author: Paul Rocheleau
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe team that introduced Shaker life, work, and design to America and the world, in such successful books as Shaker and Shaker Design, here presents the ultimate visual work on the unique melding of form and function that created the Shaker look. 200 color illustrations.
Author: Henry Plummer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 0253353629
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShaker 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: June Sprigg
Publisher: Cassell Illustrated
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781841880440
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough only a handful of the Brothers and Sisters of America's unique Shaker community are left, the Shaker legacy lives on in the architecture, furniture, crafts and inventions they created. This text discusses the origins and beliefs, the work and daily life of these people.
Author: Julie Nicoletta
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9780881503104
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Maine to Kentucky, they built communal villages whose unique buildings were designed to accommodate hundreds of inhabitants unified in the common purpose of work and worship. Julie Nicoletta's perceptive text and Bret Morgan's striking photographs illuminate the austere beauty, regional variations, and functional and stylistic evolution of Shaker buildings over the course of two centuries, evoking a visual and literary survey of Shaker design and its impact on our culture at large. Despite the fact that Shaker communities are almost extinct, an appreciation for their legacy continues to grow. Architects, designers, curators, collectors, and an ever-widening public have sought inspiration in Shaker art and architecture. The Architecture of the Shakers is a book for all those who wish to learn more about these remarkable buildings and how the rich cultural legacy of the Shakers continues to resonate within them.
Author: June Sprigg
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Shaker movement in America began in 1774 when Mother Ann Lee emigrated from Manchester, England, with a small group of followers, and settled in New York State. Despite impoverished beginnings, the Shakers flourished in the early nineteenth century, and by 1840 there were four to six thousand members living in eighteen principle communities from Maine to Kentucky. Turning away from society, they lived in large families that were both celibate and communal. In striving for heaven on earth, they created a visual environment of such harmony and quiet power that it continues to impress observers today, when the Shakers have all but passed from the American scene. The many works presented in this beautiful volume reveal the Shaker commitment to excellence in all matters. The chairs, cases of drawers, work stands, baskets, oval boxes, wheelbarrows, stoves, looms, and even tailoring tools have a purity of form that transcends mere utility and elevates our appreciation beyond a sense of function."--Amazon.
Author: Beverly Gordon
Publisher: UPNE
Published: 1982-07
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780874512427
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive book on the kinds of textiles the Shakers used, how they were produced, and their cultural and economic importance to the communities.
Author: Alan Wanzenberg
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781938461095
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEsteemed New York architect and interior designer Alan Wanzenberg shares his intimate story and brilliantly crafted projects in this personal monograph, Journey: The Life and Times of an American Architect.
Author: Amy Stechler
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780517033098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighly pictorial presentation of "the history and vision of the United Society of Believers in Christ's second appearing from 1774 to the present."
Author: Timothy D. Rieman
Publisher: Schiffer Book for Collectors
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764320019
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book surveys furniture made during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Shaker communities of New England, Kentucky, and Ohio, with over 130 color photos. Free-standing tables, chairs, boxes, desks, built-in cupboards, and cases of drawers are included. The text introduces nearly twenty Shaker communities, known cabinetmakers, identifiable furniture traits, and designs unique to specific Shaker communites.
