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.
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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.
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The Shaker Furniture Handbook
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780764320019 |
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Publisher: | Schiffer Publishing, Ltd. |
Publication date: | 11/23/2004 |
Series: | Schiffer Book for Collectors |
Pages: | 128 |
Sales rank: | 957,633 |
Product dimensions: | 8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.20(d) |
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