Shaker Möbel

Kerry Pierce, a proven connoisseur of Shaker furniture, presents numerous pieces of furniture from the Shaker tradition in this beautiful illustrated book. He explains how they are built, going into detail about materials and working methods. But Pierce provides more than a mere instruction on how to build a Shaker. In addition to the construction of the furniture, he also describes the religious intentions of the Shakers and therefore approaches the phenomenon of this community in two ways. He tells the story of the Shaker community Pleasant Hill in Kentucky in an exemplary manner. Today Pleasant Hill is an open-air museum of Shaker culture with an extensive furniture collection. The atmospheric ambience of this place forms the visual background of this extremely attractive illustrated book. A beautiful gift book for woodworkers, people interested in design or just for yourself, to leaf through and dream....