Starting with the story of Ann Lee, founder of the egalitarian Shaker sect in 1774, Witches of Design combines the principles of Shaker design—famous for its rocking chairs, flat brooms, and other iconic objects—with the subversive figure of the witch. In 1837, the community's established ritual order was disrupted by spontaneous episodes of ecstatic trance: the beginning of the so-called Era of Manifestations. Driven by the spirit of Ann Lee, rebellious sisters began to agitate, spin, and misappropriate the sect's design objects to reclaim the freedom that had been insidiously taken from them over time. A tale where the history of design intertwines with rebellion, trance, and the creative power of women.

64 p

12 x 19 cm

English