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, ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every exhibition on the design legacy of the Shakers faces the same fundamental question: How to address the gap between the elegantly sober furniture they designed and their style of worship, a ...

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 ...

One of the most memorable art-fair exhibits of the past five years didn't feature any gazillion-dollar paintings by Gerhard Richter or Instagram-baiting mirrored blobs by Anish Kapoor. Instead, the ...

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 ...