Shaker Museum: A new museum building honors the aesthetic legacy of the Shaker way of life

Annabelle Selldorf’s design for the new Shak­er Muse­um in Chatham, New York, offers a pow­er­ful archi­tec­tur­al response to the Shak­er community’s unique vision and his­to­ry. This design not only embod­ies the Shak­ers’ aes­thet­ic prin­ci­ples of sim­plic­i­ty, util­i­ty, and beau­ty but also con­tex­tu­al­izes them with­in the Utopi­an val­ues that char­ac­ter­ized the reli­gious sect’s phi­los­o­phy and way of life.

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