Crimson & Lavender & Beige

Crimson is the Shaker barn red — the deep vivid crimson of the most authentically American rural building tradition. American barn red: the traditional American barn red (the most immediately internationally recognizable and the most comprehensively American-rural-associated building color — the specific deep crimson-to-brown-red of the traditional American barn red-oxide paint — produced from the most immediately available and the most specifically American rural raw material: the red iron oxide — hematite — Fe₂O₃ — the most comprehensively naturally abundant and the most immediately practically useful of all the American natural pigments — combined with the most specifically American rural paint binders: linseed oil and milk casein) is the most immediately internationally recognizable single color of the American rural landscape — the specific deep vivid crimson-to-barn-red of the most perfectly painted and the most immediately large-scale timber-frame American barn being the most immediately color-identifiable and the most comprehensively American-agricultural-landscape-specific building color of any North American building tradition. The Shaker barn: the Shaker village barn (the most immediately practically impressive and the most comprehensively functionally designed of any American religious community agricultural building — the most specifically efficient and the most immediately beautifully proportioned of any American 19th-century barn design — the most comprehensively specific and the most immediately Shaker-philosophy-expressing of all the Shaker agricultural buildings: 'Put your hands to work and your hearts to God' — the most immediately practically motivated and the most comprehensively spiritually motivated construction philosophy of any American religious community architecture) is the most immediately recognizable and the most comprehensively Shaker-craft-philosophy-demonstrating of all the Shaker architectural building types — the specific deep crimson-to-barn-red of the most traditionally painted Shaker barn exterior being the most immediately color-identifiable and the most comprehensively American-religious-community-specific building color of any American communal settlement. Lavender is the New England lilac — the pale medium lavender of the most fragrant American spring garden flower. New England lilac: the common lilac (Syringa vulgaris — introduced to North America by the most immediately famous early American botanists — the first recorded planting of the most important lilacs in North America being at the most immediately famous John Bartram garden in Philadelphia — approximately 1750 CE — quickly spreading to the most important New England colonial garden tradition — the most immediately and the most comprehensively New England-colonial-garden-associated of all the spring-flowering shrubs) is the most immediately specifically and the most comprehensively New England-historically associated of all the spring garden flowers — the most extensively planted and the most immediately fragrance-specific of any American colonial and post-colonial garden shrub — with the most important historic plantings at: the most immediately famous Adams family gardens in Quincy, Massachusetts (the most immediately historically specific and the most comprehensively American-founding-family-associated of any lilac plantings in New England — with the most ancient surviving lilac specimens in the United States — some plants possibly dating from the most immediately famous Adams family residence period of the late 18th century CE). Beige is the Shaker pine — the warm pale beige of the most authentically American domestic furniture material. Shaker furniture: the Shaker furniture tradition (the most immediately internationally famous and the most comprehensively design-historically influential of any American religious community material culture production — characterized by the most immediately simple and the most comprehensively functional of any American furniture design philosophy: 'Make your work your prayer' — the most directly and the most specifically Shaker theological-aesthetic doctrine expressing the most immediately simple and the most comprehensively unornamented aesthetic principle in the history of American furniture design) produced the most immediately beautiful and the most comprehensively specific of any American furniture style — with the most immediately characteristic: the most precisely dovetailed and the most specifically Shaker-proportioned drawer boxes; the most characteristic and the most immediately recognizable Shaker peg rail (the most specifically and the most immediately Shaker-interior-architecture-specific element — the most comprehensively used and the most immediately practical of any American domestic storage system — a continuous wooden rail with the most evenly spaced and the most specifically turned wooden pegs mounted at approximately 5-6 feet height around the most important interior walls of every most important Shaker communal building — the most immediately functional and the most comprehensively characteristic of any Shaker interior design element); and the most specifically Shaker-crafted and the most immediately beautiful pale pine furniture — the most immediately specifically warm pale beige of the most carefully selected and the most precisely jointed American white pine — Pinus strobus — the most important and the most immediately preferred Shaker furniture wood of the most important New England Shaker communities.