The Shaker Furniture Handbook

ISBN-13:	9780764320019
Publisher:	Schiffer Publishing, Ltd.
Publication date:	11/23/2004
Series:	Schiffer Book for Collectors
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	903,757
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.20(d)

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.