Shaker-style furniture is simple. But in that simplicity is a beauty that is timeless. Tom Mosher, founder of Thos. Moser furniture, says it best. “Unadorned shape can speak with an authority that is ...

A sense of comfort is experienced in different ways by different people. Even luxury and elegance, which in many minds can be achieved only through the use of richly crafted objects and exotic ...

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, ...

German-engineered kitchen cabinetry in a premium satin lacquer program available in 28 curated colors Newport is ...

Eighteenth-century Shakers put contemporary minimalists to shame. Members of this religious sect based in upstate New York and Western Massachusetts were adamant that form follow function: a chair was ...

Ross Timberlake marks out a table at his Bethel furniture shop. The S. Timberlake Shaker and custom furniture company of Bethel provides visitors and customers a view of how wood is transformed into ...

Rows of sturdy dining tables sit, empty and gleaming, in a tiny shop on Fruitvale Boulevard. Most are built with wood from trees that were cut down centuries ago and salvaged from historic buildings.

There may be few members of the Shaker community remaining, but the religious sect’s signature style of sleek, simple elegance is a staple in many furniture showrooms. “One of the ways they subsisted ...

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 ...

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 ...