The common vision of a Shaker village is one of New England orderliness: large dwelling houses in white- and straw-colored clapboard, a central meeting house, an expansive barn in red, all arranged ...

Recreating the industrious world of the Shakers wasn’t just movie magic—it required conservators, curators and artisans Annalise June Kamegawa | Freelance Writer A place for everything and everything ...

As Ann Lee flees Europe, her religion evolves and becomes the inspiration for American design today — a journey captured in the film’s visual language. “Everything is lit with hundreds of candles.

In the trailer for The Testament of Ann Lee—the Amanda Seyfried drama in theaters now—you’ll see much of what you might expect from a film about early American religion. There’s spirited devotional ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lee, pegged by Fastvold as the "first feminist" of colonial America, was born in Manchester, England, in 1736. She would go on to ...

Above: Items from the Kvadrat/Raf Simons Shaker System Collection. The Shakers, a Christian sect that took root in North America in the 18th century, promoted, among other things, communal living that ...

Hundreds of visitors toured Shaker Village and its historic barn in New Gloucester, Maine, on Sunday during Open Farm Day. (Clarke Canfield/Courthouse News) NEW GLOUCESTER, Maine (CN) — At its peak ...

When the West Chelsea gallery Friedman Benda put on a show of British designer Faye Toogood this past winter, it painted its walls and podiums a sandy yellow and applied “cave drawing” decals, as if ...

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 ...

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Thomas Moser, a former professor who left academia to open a furniture-making workshop in Maine with his wife and honed the company to become a center of traditional craftsmanship with pieces made for ...