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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

The 12 Shaker design stamps feature photographs by Michael Freeman and the pane selvage features a black-and-white photograph by Samuel Kravitt of Brother Ricardo Belden (1868–1958) in his workshop at ...