Shaker Furniture Books

The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture (Hardcover)

This comprehensive reference documents the full scope of furniture from Shaker communities in New England, Ohio, and Kentucky. Furniture produced throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, ranging from free-standing tables, chairs, desks, boxes, and case clocks to built-in cupboards and cases of drawers, is shown in over 1,000 images, 698 in color. An extensive text provides a detailed account of Shaker history, culture, and religion.

The Encyclopedia of Shaker Furniture

The Book of Shaker Furniture (Hardcover)

The book provides a set of photographs and measured drawings of Shaker furniture for both study and reproduction.

The Book of Shaker Furniture

Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware, Vols. 1, 2 & 3 (Hardcover)

Together in one comprehensive book for the first time, these three volumes of Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware capture the simplicity, precision, and utility of shaker craftsmanship. In print for more than 20 years, these legendary and authoritative volumes have served as guides for cabinetmakers and antique collectors worldwide. Includes shop drawings for more than 100 authentic pieces. 200 black & white illustrations.

Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware, Vols. 1, 2 & 3

Making Authentic Shaker Furniture: With Measured Drawings of Museum Classics (Furniture Making) (Paperback)

Thoroughly analyzes, explains and illustrates the criteria and techniques used by the Shakers to design, construct and finish the furniture and crafts for which they have long been admired—in authoritative text, over 250 photographs and measured drawings for over 80 classic designs, ranging from a sugar scoop to a peg-leg footstool to a Harvard trestle table. 262 halftones. 140 black-and-white line illustrations.

Making Authentic Shaker Furniture: With Measured Drawings of Museum Classics (Furniture Making)

Pleasant Hill Shaker Furniture (Popular Woodworking) (Hardcover)

With its beauty and simplicity, Shaker furniture has inspired generations of furniture makers like no other style in the world. This book details the construction and design of some rare and never before seen Shaker furniture created in the village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky. Painstakingly illustrated with drawings and photos of the furniture, this book reveals the joinery and design secrets that make Shaker furniture timeless.

Pleasant Hill Shaker Furniture (Popular Woodworking)

In the Shaker Style: Building Furniture Inspired by the Shaker Tradition (In The Style) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

This book walks readers through a variety of Shaker-inspired projects ranging from beginning to advanced. It provides an overview of hallmark Shaker details, illustrated step-by-step instructions, and a gallery of photographs of successful projects.

In the Shaker Style: Building Furniture Inspired by the Shaker Tradition (In The Style)

Shaker Furniture: A Craftsman's Journal (Hardcover)

The furniture produced by Shakers for their own use was beautiful in its simplicity and functionality. 300 historical and modern photos provide a visual tour of masterpieces of Shaker furniture and an introduction to the faithful artisans who produced them. Among the items displayed are benches, blanket chests, cases of drawers, chairs, counters, cupboards, desks, rockers, stands, tables, wall clocks, workbenches, and work tables. This book will be a treasure for all who enjoy, own, and create handmade furniture.

Shaker Furniture: A Craftsman's Journal

Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware (Paperback)

Carefully detailed, time-tested guides to building Shaker furniture and woodenware.

Measured Drawings of Shaker Furniture & Woodenware

Shaker Design (Paperback)

Having lived and worked with surviving Shakers of Maine and New Hampshire, June Sprigg has drawn objects from forty collections to celebrate the Shaker tradition.

Shaker Design

The Shaker Furniture Handbook [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback)

This is the perfect introduction to Shaker furniture design.This concise book surveys distinctive furniture styles produced during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Shaker communities of New England, Kentucky, and Ohio, with over 130 beautiful full color images. Free-standing tables, chairs, boxes, desks, built-in cupboards, and cases of drawers are shown. The text provides an introduction to nearly twenty Shaker communities, their known cabinetmakers, identifiable traits of furniture designs unique to specific Shaker communites, and the characteristic colorful paints and stains used to finish them.

The Shaker Furniture Handbook

Masterpieces of Shaker Furniture (Paperback)

Excellent work by noted authority examines in depth the unique quality of Shaker craftsmanship. Fascinating discussions of sect’s origins, their communal villages, deeply religious faith and other aspects of Shaker life accompany 83 photographs revealing the quiet refinement and functional perfection of Shaker chairs, rockers, candle holders, dining tables, chests, storage cabinets, wash stands and sinks, desks, and many other fine examples of the sect’s handiwork.

Masterpieces of Shaker Furniture

The Shaker Legacy: Perspectives on an Enduring Furniture Style [ILLUSTRATED] (Hardcover)

"The Shaker Legacy" is an intriguing visual tour of 150 classic Shaker pieces, many of which have never been previously photographed. In addition, Becksvoort gives a historical perspective of Shaker beliefs and how they shaped Shaker design. 250+ color photos.

The Shaker Legacy: Perspectives on an Enduring Furniture Style

The Shaker Chair (Schiffer Classic Reference Book) (Paperback)

Readers will find valuable information on identification of chair types and origins as well as an analysis of design and construction. An essential resource for collectors, historians, designers, and devotees of antique furniture.

The Shaker Chair (Schiffer Classic Reference Book)

Selling Shaker: The Promotion of Shaker Design in the Twentieth Century (Liverpool University Press - Value-Art-Politics) (Paperback)

This illustrated study explores the emergence of the Shaker style and how it was vigorously promoted by scholars and artists into the prominence it now enjoys.

Selling Shaker: The Promotion of Shaker Design in the Twentieth Century (Liverpool University Press - Value-Art-Politics)