Russel Wright was an American industrial designer.
14 Facts About Russel Wright
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Russel Wright's best-selling ceramic dinnerware was credited with encouraging the general public to enjoy creative modern design at table with his many other ranges of furniture, accessories, and textiles.
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In 1927 Russel Wright married Mary Small Einstein, a designer, sculptor, and businesswoman, after a short yet carefree summer together in Woodstock, New York, where they were involved in the New York artist's Maverick Festival and artist colony.
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Together Mary and Russel went on to form Wright Accessories, a home accessories design business, and began creating small objects for the home consisting of cast metal animals and informal serving accessories of spun aluminum and other materials.
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Russel Wright Studios continues to work with corporate and public clients in the licensing and manufacturing of his designs and products.
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Russel Wright is best known for his colorful American Modern design, the most widely sold American ceramic dinnerware in history, manufactured between 1939 and 1959 by Steubenville Pottery in Steubenville, Ohio.
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Russel Wright designed top selling wooden furniture, spun aluminum dining accessories and textiles.
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Russel Wright's trademarked signature was the first to be identified with lifestyle-marketed products.
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Russel Wright designed several popular lines of Melmac melamine resin plastic dinnerware for the home and did early research on plastic Melmac dinnerware for restaurant use.
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Russel Wright introduced his Melmac dinnerware line called "Flair" in 1959.
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Russel Wright designed a succession of popular furniture lines for many furniture companies beginning in the early 1930s through the 1950s.
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Russel Wright worked with the Old Hickory Furniture Company in Martinsville, Indiana on unique rustic furniture with Russel Wright's modern stylings.
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Russel Wright left Princeton for the New York City theater world and quickly became a set designer for Norman Bel Geddes.
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Russel Wright was born in Lebanon, Ohio into a historic old American family, Wright's mother had direct lineage with two signers of the Declaration of Independence, and his father and grandfather were local judges.