Shaker Design - Out of This World

Informationen zum Autor Jean Burks is senior curator! Shelburne Museum. She is the author of three definitive books on Shaker furniture! including most recently The Shaker Furniture Handbook. Klappentext Reaching an apogee of 6!000 members in the years just before the American Civil War! the Shaker movement was the most enduring! and successful utopian society established in America. This book presents an array of fine examples of Shaker furniture! household objects! textiles! religious drawings! and items made to sell to the 'world's people'. Zusammenfassung Reaching an apogee of 6!000 members in the years just before the American Civil War! the Shaker movement was the most enduring! and successful utopian society established in America. This book presents an array of fine examples of Shaker furniture! household objects! textiles! religious drawings! and items made to sell to the 'world's people'.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Burks, Jean M. Burks, BURKS JEAN M
• Assisted by: Jean M. Burks (Editor)
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2008
• EAN: 9780300137286
• ISBN: 978-0-300-13728-6
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 241 mm x 286 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Published in Association with the Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture; Published in Association with the Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design and Culture; Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts(YUP)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques