Shaker furniture: Clean by design 04:58. Simple, practical, and easily-adaptable design was a hallmark of the religious group known as the Shakers, as Richard Schlesinger tells us.

As Marion, the lead character in “The Shaker Chair,” describes her new acquisition, she explains that the Shakers believed in hard work as the path to satisfaction and accomplishment.

The IKEA ALEX dresser unit is the perfect base for a custom Shaker look. This project is a simple upcycle that you can customize to fit any aesthetic.

It isn't comfortable, the new owner of a Shaker chair confides early in Adam Bock's "The Shaker Chair" at Ashby Stage. The way Frances Lee McCain delivers the line, musing with quiet wonder on ...

In The Shaker Chair, Marion (Mary Pauley) is excited about her new piece of furniture, and seems to think she’s acquired a new creed along with it. She gleefully talks about the beliefs and ...

The personal cost paid for both passivity and action are weighed in Adam Bock's "The Shaker Chair," which has now been co-produced by Berkeley's Shotgun Players and San Francisco's Encore Theater ...

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Is romance an opiate that keeps women socially subjugated? Yes, according to playwright Adam Bock’s intriguing deconstruction of female identity, “The Shaker Chair.” Canadian Bock, now a ...

Shaker furniture has been collectible for as long as it's been around. Connoisseurs in the early 20th century would visit Shaker communities scattered throughout the Northeast to make friends ...

Shaker furniture’s gorgeously spare forms have long stood as icons of homegrown American functionalism: no-nonsense usefulness as beauty. The newness of the New Minimal sensibility, ...