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Highlight Flatware
1951 · Stainless steel
.1 (dinner fork): l. 7" (17.8 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Russel Wright
American, 1904
Ceramics
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13
Institutional Exhibitions
61
Works in Collection
89
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3
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20th Century Design from the Museum Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1958–1959
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Good Design: 5th Anniversary
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1955
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Good Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1953
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Good Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1952
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Good Design
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1951–1952
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Russel Wright was an American designer and ceramicist whose innovative tableware and furniture defined postwar domestic modernism. Working primarily in glazed ceramic and molded plastic, he developed accessible, functional forms that rejected ornament in favor of organic, biomorphic shapes. His mass-produced dinnerware lines and organic furniture designs brought modernist principles into American households during the 1940s and 1950s, establishing a distinctly American approach to industrial design that prioritized everyday utility over luxury craftsmanship.
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Cleveland Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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