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, ...

PITTSFIELD — Hancock Shaker Village explores the continuing influence of Shaker design and aesthetic on contemporary artists with a series of four art installations. The installations by American ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Every generation stages its own Shaker design revival. The Whitney Museum of American Art had a big show in ...

Editor’s Note: CNN Style is a media partner of Design Miami. Click here for all of our coverage of the international fair. Admittedly, there was more to the United Society of Believers in Christ’s ...

The Shakers are on the verge of extinction following the recent death of one of the sect's three surviving members. So why is their austere style having yet another revival? "We call them the first ...

Every exhibition on the design legacy of the Shakers faces the same fundamental question: How to address the gap between the elegantly sober furniture they designed and their style of worship, a ...

Danish furniture brand Brdr Krüger has partnered with designer Rasmus Bækkel Fex to create a Shaker-influenced chair with a woven seat. Designed as a contemporary take on tradition, the F chair ...

PITTSFIELD — Beth Calkins arrived at Hancock Shaker Village at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, 90 minutes before opening, so she could be at the front of the line. Calkins was just one of many standing in line, ...

The country’s most significant collection of Shaker objects, out of public view for a decade, will relocate to an $18 million museum complex designed by Annabelle Selldorf. By Patricia Leigh Brown ...

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 ...

Editor’s Note: CNN Style is a media partner of Design Miami. Click here for all of our coverage of the international fair. Admittedly, there was more to the United Society of Believers in Christ’s ...