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dance loom

dance loom

Analysis and Design Proposal | Shaker Museum & Library | Old Chatham, NY

2011

 

A proposal for the Shaker Museum and Library, in Old Chatham, New York. Developed out of an extended analysis of a shaker design artifact — the chair-post bender jig — the project engages the relationship between design, culture, materiality, and craft in one of America’s most cherished design cultures.