Modern Shaker Chairs
Both choices have an elegant look that coordinates beautifully with many decorating styles.
Modern shaker chairs. Shaker craft and style has had a tremendous impact on modern american and scandinavian furniture pure form and pared down shapes offer comfort. Each piece in this collection is available with your choice of either soft rounded corners and edges or straight streamlined edges and eased corners. A handful of independent furniture studios like sawkille and o g are applying contemporary sensibilities to classic shaker forms. They are meant to be used every day and should easily become a natural fit in your formal dining room or eat in kitchen.
Shaker chairs are known for their longevity and durability in the home. Our high end modern shaker style furniture collection is designed in burlington vermont and handmade of natural solid hardwoods. Shaker furniture is the one truly original american style of furniture. Originally made by followers of a religious group shaker furniture was designed entirely for its functionality and practicality.
These timeless characteristics give amish shaker furniture its traditional handcrafted appeal. Its clear crisp lines and singular lightness unite and transcend both traditional and modern settings and for that reason it has remained a major creative force in our decorative arts heritage for hundreds of years. Parents of small. Shaker style is known for being practical and simple down to the very last detail.
Chairs made by the shakers followed form based on simple 18th century designs primarily federal influences including those seen in their windsor and slat back chairs. Shaker style dining chairs can be identified by their often tapered legs simple lines and gentle curves. Fast forward a few hundred years and shaker style furniture has become increasingly popular for both traditional and modern homes. They were modern before the modernists.
For half a century shaker workshops has worked to craft and faithfully reproduce it in the highest and. From chairs to clothes pegs shaker designs show the clean lines and absence of adornment favoured by the modernists of the mid 20th century.