Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720-1920
Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720-1920
$50.00
Lapsansky, Emma Jones and Anne A. Verplanck
eds. Cl. Philadelphia, 2002
SKU 50621
The notion of a uniquely Quaker style in architecture, dress, and domestic interiors is a subject with which scholars have long grappled, since Quakers have traditionally held both an appreciation for high-quality workmanship and a distrust of ostentation. Early Quakers, or members of the Society of Friends, who held "plainness" or "simplicity" as a virtue, were also active consumers of fine material goods.
400 pp., 90 color and B&W illus
