An Analytical study of Interior Design and Furniture Works for Shakers Group as a Nucleus of a Timeless Design Thought

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1 Professor of interior design theories Department of Interior and Furniture Design, Faculty of Applied Arts - Damietta University

2 Master's researcher - Department of Interior Design and Furniture Faculty of Applied Arts - Damietta University

3 Instructor in the Interior and Furniture Design Department Faculty of Applied Arts - Damietta University

Abstract

In 1774, A group appeared that called itself The Shakers, and they are a religious sect that flourished for most of the nineteenth century. Furniture and interior design spaces that appeared to them formed a distinctive expression that highlights their philosophy through the various design principles related to simplicity, abstraction, lack of decoration, proportionality and proportions, which is what Making it aesthetically pleasing and a positive influence on American designers for decades that has given shakers furniture a new life and made it a source for creative furniture production and endless new thought. The public taste at this time was saturated with the momentum and weight of the Baroque era, so this group took simplicity and clarity while preserving functional values ​​as a starting point for expressing its philosophy and forming its elements, thus forming a creative American heritage and fixed values ​​that can be inherited through decades and generations. The idea of ​​this research is to determine the extent of the influence of shakers on furniture design and interior design throughout the ages. The research aims to study and analyze the design philosophy and principles of shakers in order to find the extent of the influence of them over the ages, through the work of descriptive and analytical studies of models of shakers' furniture and their spaces and the models inspired by them.
The research problem is determined by several questions... What are the most important design principles for shakers? What is the impact of the shakers' philosophy on modern and contemporary designs? Does the group of shakers have some intellectual legacies that can help the contemporary designer and provide him with sources of creativity and create ideas that keep up with the current era?

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