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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 ...
If you ever see a Shaker chair on “Antiques Roadshow,” the appraiser will probably go on about its design, the simple, clean lines, the sturdy craftsmanship, the strength of its ...
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 ...
After absorbing these "gifts," visionists would reproduce them "through drawings, songs, dances, poems and just messages in general," according to Hancock Shaker Village Curator Lesley Herzberg. By ...
The Shaker philosophy of furniture-making, with its emphasis on function and aversion to embellishment, has attracted many converts in the design world. So this week, we thought we'd share three ...
The exhibit of these little-known furniture items that they put together for the Shaker Museum’s pop-up gallery was days from opening in the Kinderhook Knitting Mill — a converted historic ...