Eighteenth-century Shakers put contemporary minimalists to shame. Members of this religious sect based in upstate New York and Western Massachusetts were adamant that form follow function: a chair was ...

Simple, practical, and easily-adaptable design was a hallmark of the religious group known as the Shakers, as Richard Schlesinger tells us: At the Hancock Shaker Village in far western Massachusetts, ...

“A place for everything, and everything in its place” is a proverb often spoken by those familiar with the Shaker faith and style. Though the religious movement didn't coin the phrase, the association ...

PITTSFIELD — Hancock Shaker Village explores the continuing influence of Shaker design and aesthetic on contemporary artists with a series of four art installations. The installations by American ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Every generation stages its own Shaker design revival. The Whitney Museum of American Art had a big show in ...

Admittedly, there was more to the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing than pegs, ladder-back chairs and quilts. The Shakers, as they were otherwise known, were an English ...

NEW YORK (AP) - The Shakers, an industrious and pious New England sect that rose to prominence in the 19th century but whose membership has now dwindled from thousands to three, have long had an ...

As Ann Lee flees Europe, her religion evolves and becomes the inspiration for American design today — a journey captured in the film’s visual language. “Everything is lit with hundreds of candles.

Every exhibition on the design legacy of the Shakers faces the same fundamental question: How to address the gap between the elegantly sober furniture they designed and their style of worship, a ...

Simple, practical, and easily-adaptable design was a hallmark of the religious group known as the Shakers, as Richard Schlesinger tells us.(This story was originally broadcast on May 31, 2015.) At the ...