The aura of Shakers, the influencers of good design – Domus

In recent years, tributes to Shaker culture have also found the form of a collective celebration that, cultivated over time, has taken on the value of an immersion in the legacy of the American sect. This is the spirit in which Furnishing Utopia, a group of 28 international design studios, launched a series of exhibitions from 2016 to 2018 that offered a comprehensive reinterpretation on various scales of the Shakers corpus of artefacts. Offsite, the first debut at New York Design Week in 2016, tackled the restyling of some pieces through the use of updated lines and colour keys. Also exhibited at Hancock Shaker Village, the museum site of an old and now extinct Shaker community, Furnishing Utopias collection expanded the following year to include storage furniture, textile creations and series of objects often reinterpreted as an exploration of a given typology. Hands To Work, from 2018, explored the metaphor and value of household cleaning objects, whose instrumental function is combined with the idea of a tool for spiritual elevation and enlightenment.

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