Collector's Encyclopedia of Russell Wright,9781574322569

Collector's Encyclopedia of Russell Wright

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9781574322569
ISBN10: 1574322567
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-04-01
Publisher(s): Collector Books
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Summary

In addition to the dinnerware collectibles, this book also features the furniture, housewares, lamps, wood, metal works, fabrics, and numerous other items sought by collectors and dealers. Hundreds of photos, including vintage catalogs and advertisements, and revised values for all items to reflect today's ever-changing market. AUTHORBIO: Ann Kerr was an avid Russel Wright collector and researchers of his works for many years. She was able to finish writing her third edition of the Collector's Encyclopedia of Russel Wright before she passed away in 2001. REVIEW: This book is more than just an identification and vaule guide. Along with many of the features often seen in a collector's guide, the encyclopedia also contains several essays about the life and work of this innovative industrial designer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 4(2)
The Importance of Manitoga and Dragon Rock
6(2)
Beginning Again
8(4)
Pricing in General
12(1)
Russel Wright, His Life, His Mantra
13(16)
More on Marks
29(5)
Color Charts
34(1)
Metals in a New Age
35(33)
Furniture, for a New Generation
68(36)
His Own Light
104(14)
Woods From the Oceans
118(9)
Modernism in American Dinnerware
127(15)
Functional Iroquois
142(18)
Sterling in the Home
160(14)
The Elegance of Highlight
174(6)
White Clover, Pattern for the First Time
180(7)
Knowles Esquire, the Designer's Favorite
187(8)
Naturalistic Bauer, Everyone's Choice
195(8)
More on Cutlery
203(6)
Putting Plastics in their Place
209(12)
There Had to Be Glass
221(14)
Fabrics for the Table
235(8)
For It Was Mary
243(12)
Themes for the '60s
255(8)
The Best of the Rest
263(10)
Wright's American-Way Program, Another World of Modernism
273(8)
Chronology 281(3)
Bibliography 284(1)
Price Guide 285

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