{"id":12977,"date":"2016-04-04T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2016-04-04T13:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=12977"},"modified":"2016-04-04T09:30:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-04T13:30:43","slug":"shaker-finer-furniture-opens-in-downingtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=12977","title":{"rendered":"Shaker Fine Furniture opens in Downingtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1325882\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SFF-Press-Release-4_02_2016-200x300.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1325882\" class=\"wp-image-1325882 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/SFF-Press-Release-4_02_2016-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"SFF-Press-Release-4_02_2016\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1325882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unionville native Paul Huberty has turned his passion for Shaker Furniture into a new business venture in Downingtown.<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">DOWNINGTOWN \u2014 Shaker Fine Furniture opened in the borough this past weekend. The new Chester County-based business builds Shaker-inspired furniture, including tables, benches, chairs, cabinets, dressers, and other furniture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Owner Paul <span class=\"s1\">F. Huberty, <\/span>a long-time Chester County resident and graduate of Unionville High School, started the business to pursue a lifelong passion for Shaker furniture.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cThis is a second career for me, but one that I have thought about since high <span class=\"s1\">school.\u201dHuberty said.<\/span>\u00a0\u201cI have always been inspired by the <span class=\"s1\">beauty, <\/span>strength and proportions of Shaker Furniture. Their furniture was free of adornments and anything that was not essential to its purpose and function; yet, it requires advanced craftsmanship and very careful attention to<span class=\"s1\"> details.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Shaker Fine Furniture is located at Valentine Edge\u2019s Mill at 930 Bondsville Road in Downingtown. The three-story stone grist Mill was built in 1784 just eight years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cI feel that my furniture is inspired by the Shakers, infused with my own style, and blended with the history of Chester <span class=\"s1\">County,\u201d\u00a0Huberty said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Shaker Fine Furniture is open to the public on Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. They can be found at <span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ShakerFineFurniture.com\" target=\"_blank\">ShakerFineFurniture.com<\/a> <\/span>and on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DOWNINGTOWN \u2014 Shaker Fine Furniture opened in the borough this past weekend. The new Chester County-based business builds Shaker-inspired furniture, including tables, benches, chairs, cabinets, dressers, and other furniture. Owner Paul F. Huberty, a long-time Chester County resident and graduate of Unionville High School, started the business to pursue a lifelong passion for Shaker furniture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12976,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1176],"tags":[4938,4937],"class_list":["post-12977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-paul-huberty","tag-shaker-fine-furniture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12980,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12977\/revisions\/12980"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}