NEW YORK, March 4 -- There once was a time in America when keeping up with the Joneses meant having tableware, linens and furnishings designed by Russel Wright, a man determined to make "Easier Living ...

Everyone is entitled to good design. That was the mission that motivated industrial designer Russel Wright, who designed dinnerware and furniture that he hoped would both beautify and simplify ...

This first major retrospective of one of the country's greatest industrial designers explores the products and ideas developed and marketed by Russel Wright, inventor of a gracious, informal and ...

Admired as the first major American industrial designer for the mass market, Russel Wright (1904-1976) dreamed up mid-century modern collections of cheap and cheerful dinnerware, appliances, textiles, ...

The house can be a bit hard to spot — but then that is just what was intended at Manitoga. It’s meant to be discovered slowly while wandering along rocky, wooded pathways that give tantalizing ...

Russel Wright transformed the American home with his signature dinnerware, kitchen accessories, furniture and new gospel of tasteful informality. In the 1930s, Wright’s modern designs and ideas ...

Innovative and iconic industrial designer Russel Wright stamped his modern sensibilities on the American public, delivering goods from furniture to flatware to the masses. An exhibit of his work, ...

Mid-century designer Russel Wright, who lived from 1904 to 1976, revolutionized the American home through his contribution of inexpensive, mass produced dinnerware, furniture, appliances, and textiles ...

Practically every home in mid-20th-century America had a piece of Russel Wright design — perhaps a graphic wall clock, a sleek pastel ashtray, or a spun aluminum ice bucket. In the “Leave It to Beaver ...

Russel Wright (1905-1976) was the first superstar of industrial design. His extraordinary vision transformed the American home, bringing modernism to Mom and Pop and the kids, too. Wright didn’t shock ...