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Submitted by atomicscott on Fri, 11/13/2009 - 8:31pm
Dining Room Close Up
In this corner of the dining room, I keep Mary Wright's Bauer and Red Wing Chromoline. If you do not have kids or pets, the floor makes a great place to display pottery (especially when you are out of room, like me)!
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Mary Wright where?
All I see is Roseville Futura and Hull House.
Where's Mary?
The green dinnerware between the Futura vase and the Hull House is Country Gardens.
Kidding
I find Hull House and Futura far more compelling than Mary Wright. Good ole selective perception.
An acquired taste.
When i first starting collecting designs by Russel Wright, I was convinced that I would never, ever collect anything designed by Mary. It was years before I bought my first piece of Country Gardens. Now, I have fallen in love with the complex glaze treatments and clever design details found on her Country Gardens dinnerware. Yes, there are defects in the design--the coffee cup handles are impossible to properly hold and the cups tend to roll off the saucers with their convex center detail--but, she was pushing the envelop with new dinnerware ideas. Some of her other houseware designs are just as clever, and you cannot help but think that Russel was behind many of them. Like Charles and Ray Eames, Mary and Russel were a dynamic design and marketing team both dependent on each other for their success. That is why I appreciate her designs.
floor
I'd be afraid that a clumsy visitor would smash the floor display! Is that a Red Wing planter towards the back? And is that Betty Davis peeking over the Futura vase? Sure looks like her.
Constance Bennett...
...in a bent plywood frame, is peeking over the Futura vase. My "floor" pottery is generally out of the way of places people would walk. So far, knock on clay, there have never been any accidents!
Interiors
Just want to comment that I love the interior shots filled with MCM goodies. Please keep them coming.