Myths & mysteries
Shakers designed their famously minimalist wooden furniture because angels explicitly told them how to build it
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You know them for their incredibly sleek, highly expensive antique chairs, but their design process was literally dictated by the supernatural. The Shakers were a radical religious sect who believed they received direct, mystical 'gifts' from the spirit world. Every clean line and peg-rail wasn't just an aesthetic choice; it was divinely mandated minimalism to avoid the sin of pride. Ikea could never.
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