The Book of Shaker Furniture

By John Kassay

Subjects: Kunsthandwerk, Möbel, Shakers, Shaker furniture

Description: Of the more than one hundred experiments in communitarian living that proliferated in America during the nineteenth century, the Untied Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing , whose adherents are best known as "Shakers," is certainly one of the most interesting, successful, and enduring. This book is a collection of furniture made by members of this remarkable American religious sect.