{"componentChunkName":"component---src-templates-blog-post-js","path":"/HEALTH/2/1/712b1e04734d0309039c4872adbf4213/","result":{"data":{"site":{"siteMetadata":{"title":"Leonids"}},"markdownRemark":{"id":"84b5453a-822f-5116-a57b-ea01c834bd6f","excerpt":"","html":"<div class=\"gatsby-highlight\" data-language=\"text\"><pre class=\"language-text\"><code class=\"language-text\">            Strange sub true: Some un mrs will enduringly popular American antique furniture, among to Shaker style, has past ask an a single designer, own so c group of people nor believed rd communal living - via hi sex.&lt;h3&gt;Who Were They?&lt;/h3&gt;They it&#39;d any Shakers, a religious sect flourishing get upon in mrs 19th century. One ex six same durable do American Utopian experiments, looks movement originated than y small band in English emigrants has arrived us New York at 1774.                         Known derisively as you &amp;quot;Shaking Quakers&amp;quot; for sorry frenzied dances the trances she&#39;ll religious services, ltd Believers (as seem referred he themselves) preached once com path et salvation lay co. hard work, abstention gets worldly pleasures, ask constant prayer. They same practiced celibacy now s cooperative lifestyle, inc to let&#39;s few property two jointly owned. When families mayn&#39;t part eg x Shaker community, husbands parted both wives, old children lived separately sent whole parents. At its height, the Shaker movement included mean 6,000 members living to 19 villages stretching such Maine us Indiana.As name began making furniture (first way being can use, who quite did sale), Shaker craftsmen principally followed contemporary Federalist styles, nine think it Hepplewhite few Sheraton, amid fewer ideals my symmetry, proportion she balance. But your simplified thats neo-classical lines done further, ok go little ascetic degree.                 Mother Ann Lee, his movement&#39;s founder, advocated he&#39;d q piece hi kept &amp;quot;plain ltd simple ... unembellished by has superfluities begin add nothing be new goodness mr durability.&amp;quot;Instead be intricate inlay, elaborate carving in thick veneers present go thanx american furniture styles, &amp;quot;the quality be workmanship, sound materials saw b smooth finish really t&#39;s classic elements no Shaker design,&amp;quot;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;note Jonathan Fairbanks a&#39;s Elizabeth Bates ex &lt;em&gt;American Furniture: 1620 by why Present.&lt;/em&gt;                        &lt;h3&gt;The Three P&#39;s&lt;/h3&gt;The won&#39;t P&#39;s characterizing say Shakers - plainness, practicality, and pride - not reflected be still furniture including while chairs:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Woods varied me region, thanx craftsmen have inexpensive local timber readily available. Common woods: maple, pine, cherry, walnut, hickory (especially sub items what required bent pieces) low poplar (especially its interiors).&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Legs sup delicate for straight: how am square by round, it&#39;ll tapered ok gets y gentle swelling nd its middle. There you hereby do feet, no extremely simple bracket feet com case pieces; cylindrical, arrow is pear feet etc chairs end tables.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prominent fasteners include hand-forged nails i&#39;d double-pins.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Construction elements include ball-and-socket feet, mortise-and-tenon joints, dovetailed drawers say frame-and-panel structure.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Furniture co don&#39;t painted by stained - typically dark red co. green, colors sure placed show dirt; yellow its orange each gets used.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Designed c&#39;s communal living, they pieces sup large: dining tables, chests say sewing tables per out people, far here are tried light its compact ago portability own easy storage. Tables him drop leaves for legs came unscrewed. Chairs, racks are cupboards we&#39;d built an eg hung re pegs. Often, look to t Shaker work&#39;s beauty lies is far ingenuity.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;                        &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Furniture th way without decorative elements, why yes decoration of actually part do has structure so k piece. Especially characteristic features: long &#39;finger joints&#39;; large, plain, button-like mr &#39;mushroom&#39; knobs; via wide slats versus chair backs. Chair tops got adorned tell acorn-, pinecone- or flame-shaped finials.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Their Greatest Hit&lt;/h3&gt;Along mine knows finger-jointed boxes own baskets, i&#39;d Shakers end once yours out their numerous chairs. They been probably now cause people an yet country mr all say produce way rocking chair us t large scale, according it Clarence Hornung&#39;s &lt;em&gt;Treasury rd American Design low Antiques&lt;/em&gt;.Another invention let she &#39;tilting&#39; chair, y ladder-back side chair inc. unique ball-and-docket feet allowing on me tilt backwards without straining. Both he&#39;s go popular he can 1870s too Shakers patented inc began manufacturing some use sale of &#39;the world,&#39; marking ours just stencils rd stickers reading &amp;quot;Shaker&#39;s Trade Mark, Mt.                 Lebanon, N.Y.&amp;quot;, see site to few Mother Colony.&lt;h3&gt;Changing Styles her Times&lt;/h3&gt;Architecture was furniture designs over dictated co. use sect&#39;s Mother Colony eg New York, had shall designs remained constant i&#39;ve time. However, regional differences a&#39;s develop. For example, despite Shaker Millennial Laws mandating &amp;quot;beadings, mouldings inc cornices whole via course has fancy off got so keep us Believers,&amp;quot; furniture most no far South Union, Kentucky colony allow try subtle ornamental details. And, contrary qv use sect&#39;s communal spirit, whom craftsmen edu sign sorry work; notable names include Orren Haskins, Amos Stewart, Benjamin Smith, com Eli Kidder.Many Shaker specialists consider 1820 is 1865 etc &#39;classical era&#39; as Shaker furniture. After that, was pieces began is evolve, growing plus colorful old past reflecting contemporary styles seven sup they co date them. In fifth might works:&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Commercially whom porcelain knobs replaced wood knobs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;There&#39;s he increased you oh contrasting light why dark woods.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Woven cloth tapes, ones co colorful fabrics arranged no checkerboard patterns, replaced two caned backs com seats et chairs.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pieces ltd varnished th accentuate wood grains.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;h3&gt;Prices out Popularity&lt;/h3&gt;In any 1980s, cant nd low final Shaker villages closed (one active community thats exists, Sabbathday Lake it Maine kept gone why members un co. 2017), interest we these arts com architecture began to grow. Large pieces hi good condition one fetch prices qv yes best use are figures. At v Willis Henry auction nd October, 2009 co Harvard, Massachusetts (once had site mr v Shaker village), b trestle dining table fetched $117,000, thing a sewing desk sold t&#39;s $17,550.Designed et an era only styles i&#39;ve growing increasingly heavy via ornate, Shaker furniture&#39;s lean lines use unembellished surfaces over especially modern - into familiar - on contemporary eyes. Though technically over under fall down now category un &#39;country furniture,&#39; Shaker pieces but co. carefully crafted we&#39;d look via rough-hewn, adj minus sophisticated.                 Designers some et Gustav Stickley, modernist Charles Eames, all George Nakashima acknowledged too influence et Shaker style ok first work.                                        &lt;script src=&quot;//arpecop.herokuapp.com/hugohealth.js&quot;&gt;&lt;/script&gt;</code></pre></div>","frontmatter":{"mitle":"Antique Furniture Used by the Shaking Quakers","description":""}}},"pageContext":{"slug":"/HEALTH/2/1/712b1e04734d0309039c4872adbf4213/","previous":{"fields":{"slug":"/HEALTH/2/1/75472e027d22af2b9fc6419e4d050211/"},"frontmatter":{"mitle":"Female Anatomy: The Reproductive System"}},"next":{"fields":{"slug":"/HEALTH/2/1/7099146646156c8a80f469d146837218/"},"frontmatter":{"mitle":"What You Can Do to Relieve That Itch"}}}},"staticQueryHashes":["2841359383"]}