Formal Legacies - The Shaker Settee (2016) - Reconstruction & Photography - Reconstruction & Photography

Formal Legacies seeks to re-examine the past of Shaker furniture through the digital present, via furniture making and photography, as a proxy lens for examining its own European and American antecedence and its formal legacies.This item contains documentation of the reconstruction of a Shaker Spindle Back Settee and photography of the methods behind its construction. Photo credit: Andrew Southall. Used with permission.