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The Shaker Furniture Handbook
Timothy D. Rieman
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Description for The Shaker Furniture Handbook
Paperback. Num Pages: 3 pages, 133 color, 6 b/w photos. BIC Classification: WCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 278 x 216 x 11. Weight in Grams: 738.
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. \nThe 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.
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. \nThe 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.
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Weight
737g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764320019
SKU
V9780764320019
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-2
About Timothy D. Rieman
Timothy D. Rieman is one of the foremost makers of reproduction Shaker furniture. Jean M. Burks is the Curator of Decorative Arts at the Shelburne Museum, in Vermont, which has the pre-eminent public collection of Shaker furniture. They are the authors of a larger, more comprehensive book on the subject, The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture, from Schiffer Publishing.
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