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.

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Mediatyp: Bok
Bandtyp: Häftad
Författare: Jean M. Burks
Förlag: Schiffer Publishing
Språk: Engelska
Omfång: 128 sidor
Mått (bxhxd): 215x280x12 mm
Vikt: 745 gram
Illustrerad: Nej

Streckkod: 9780764320019
SKU: 741047