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 ...
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, ...
The Shakers are on the verge of extinction following the recent death of one of the sect's three surviving members. So why is their austere style having yet another revival? "We call them the first ...
Editor’s Note: CNN Style is a media partner of Design Miami. Click here for all of our coverage of the international fair. Admittedly, there was more to the United Society of Believers in Christ’s ...
"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 ...
Danish furniture brand Brdr Krüger has partnered with designer Rasmus Bækkel Fex to create a Shaker-influenced chair with a woven seat. Designed as a contemporary take on tradition, the F chair ...
The country’s most significant collection of Shaker objects, out of public view for a decade, will relocate to an $18 million museum complex designed by Annabelle Selldorf. By Patricia Leigh Brown ...
Above: Items from the Kvadrat/Raf Simons Shaker System Collection. The Shakers, a Christian sect that took root in North America in the 18th century, promoted, among other things, communal living that ...
Editor’s Note: CNN Style is a media partner of Design Miami. Click here for all of our coverage of the international fair. Admittedly, there was more to the United Society of Believers in Christ’s ...
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 ...