The Shaker Furniture Handbook

This is the perfect introduction to Shaker furniture design.This concise book surveys distinctive furniture styles produced during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Shaker communities of New England, Kentucky, and Ohio, with over 130 beautiful full color images. Free-standing tables, chairs, boxes, desks, built-in cupboards, and cases of drawers are shown. The text provides an introduction to nearly twenty Shaker communities, their known cabinetmakers, identifiable traits of furniture designs unique to specific Shaker communites, and the characteristic colorful paints and stains used to finish them.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 11/23/2004
ISBN: 9780764320019
Pages: 128
Weight: 1.61lbs
Size: 10.91h x 8.19w x 0.56d