In the exhibition are two Shaker chairs made at the beginning of the century.

Eventually their techniques influenced the celebratedly simple and elegant style of the Shaker chair, still largely made by turning.

The Shaker chairs (1880-1920), above, were sold by mail order.

(Toward the end of the hour, you can see a Shaker chair auctioned off for $1,000.)

"We sit in our Shaker chairs and cook with our yellow-ware bowls."

Compared with some of his pieces, a Shaker chair looks overstuffed.

A polished table and a Shaker chair stood before brown velvet curtains.

"Shaker chairs are terribly uncomfortable," he continues while drawing a chair with a back at 90 degrees to the seat.

Shaker chairs were usually mass-produced because a great number of them were needed to seat all the Shakers in a community.

They were so successful that several furniture companies produced their own versions of "Shaker" chairs.