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Modern Shaker Furniture

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Handmade modern. Shaker furniture's simplicity and close relationship to Danish Modern style makes it a good fit for clean-lined interiors. Shaker furniture is traditionally handmade (and therefore greener than most mass-produced products). According to the Shaker religion, hard work and simplicity were paths to happiness. We think the philosophy behind the furniture isn't so far from what we're trying to do with homes...make them calm, healthy, beautiful places to live.

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Shown at Top: Bowback Bench by James Becker, $2,350 - $2,500


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Small Cherry drop-Leaf Breakfast Table by Wilson Woodworking, $1,900


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Strip Quilt Cupboard by Jim Rose (Rose uses scrap metal to make his colorful steel cabinets)


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Two-Drawer Shaker Work Table ($962.50) and Shaker Sideboard ($1,187.50) by Shaker Workshops

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green ideas, seating - benches & stools, tables - dining & occasional, handmade, James Becker, Jim Rose, Shaker furniture, Wilson Woodworking

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I love Shaker Workshops. If I ever have the space to showcase it properly, I'm going to bring one of their tall clocks into my home.

posted by Doppelganger on 2007-12-12 18:13:26
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Great to see you covering this movement, such an important marriage of spirit and design. My dad made reproduction Shaker furniture for thirty years, and the pieces of his that I inherited fit seamlessly with the Danish modern stuff I buy for myself.

posted by sirenicefall on 2007-12-12 21:19:35
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beautiful woodwork

posted by LaDonnaNichole on 2007-12-12 22:22:11
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posted by JC HRYB on 2007-12-20 21:41:32
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