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Shaker Chairs
are elegant, yet simple chairs that take you back into history! Check out the history of the shaker chairs below. |
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| The Amish, known far and wide for their fine craftsmanship, have constructed Shaker chairs that are not only elegant, but are built to last a lifetime!. Choose your Amish built chair in any style, as a side chair or as an arm chair. Each shaker chair is finished with a catalyst finish to ensure beauty and longevity! | ||
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| The Shaker Chair, is the perfect dining chair if you're looking for a Classical dining room! The Shaker chair comes with bowed slats in the back to fit the contour our your back. Beautiful and elegant, the Shaker chair is sure to give you that final classical touch! | ||
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A Bit of History on the Shaker Chair |
| The common
New England slat-back chair, fashioned by the hands of a Shaker woodworker,
has become an icon of American furniture design. Shaker craftsman were
familiar with that furniture form. It was found in almost every eighteenth
and nineteenth century rural New England home. Converts brought these chairs
with them as they joined shaker communities. Shaker craftsmen produced
Shaker chairs, refining that vernacular form and creating a distinctive ,
well-built chair that ultimately earned them considerable renown. Shaker
chairs were made in nearly every Shaker village for use within their shops
and dwellings. Some Shaker chairs were sold to outsiders.
The earliest of these Shaker chairs where sturdy and practical, but uncomfortable. They sat squarely on the floor, but were unforgiving to the contours of the human body. During the first decades of the nineteenth century, Shaker craftsman made the generic Shaker chair more graceful and comfortable by angling the front and back posts slightly back to make the chair more accommodating to the way people reclined as they sat. At the same time they became visually more appealing. |