Shaker Design
シェーカー・デザイン / 1780s–1900s / Style / Furniture and Interiors
The plainness practiced as faith by the American Shaker communities: ornament renounced, furniture and rooms perfected through use and honest workmanship — a forerunner of functionalism and Scandinavian design.
Ornament fully renounced / Peg-rail walls / Light, precise furniture / Perfection as labor
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the doctrine that beauty rests in utility / its influence on Danish furniture / George Nelson's reappraisal