When Furniture Becomes Art
I think a piece of furniture becomes a piece of art in two ways. One, when the market dictates it
because of its value. Two, in the way that you display it and thus, I continue to this day to be a
huge fan of dinnerware and china produced by Russell Wright, one of our great, modern
industrial designers who produced billions and billions of pieces of ceramic dinnerware for the
masses during the Depression era. And I look at a simple butter dish that there was probably two
million of this butter dish in this specific glaze produced by Wright and manufactured in
Steubenville, Ohio in the ‘30s. And I look at that butter dish. I look at the water pitcher. I look at
the casserole from this, and I can put that on a shelf by itself. And it’s just the curves, the lines;
that just elegant feel to it, its art. It’s absolutely art. But it’s also dishwasher friendly.
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