Stand (Candlestand)

Description

Made of cherry, the top of this stand is secured with screws to a round plate at the top of the pedestal. The legs are attached to the pedestal with sliding dovetails secured with a tin spider. In the 1960s Faith and Edward Deming Andrews hired Danish immigrant cabinetmaker Ejner Handberg (1902-1985) to repair and restore Shaker furniture in their collection. Intrigued by Shaker furniture design, Handberg worked with the Andrews, studying, measuring, and reproducing examples which he marked with a name stamp for the marketplace. The Andrews commissioned Handberg to make reproduction Shaker furniture for their home, Shaker Farm, in Richmond, Massachusetts, including a trestle-base dining room table in 1964, and this stand. In 1973, Handberg published the three-volume collection, “Shop Drawings of Shaker Furniture and Woodenware.”