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Growing up in New York in the 1950s as the daughter of two prominent and successful designers, Russel and Mary Wright, I was truly a child of midcentury Modern. My parents pioneered products for the home--furniture, flatware, glassware, rugs, lamps, pottery, table linens, and jukeboxes--that have become highly collectible design icons. Mass-produced and at affordable prices their designs were functional, practical, and beautiful, geared toward the more informal post-World War II American lifestyle. (Their AMerican Modern was the best-selling line of dinnerware in U.S. history, with people lining up outside department stores when new shipments arrived.) They believed in the value of good American design and ingenuity, and eschewed the fussy Euro-centric and stodgy American Traditional styles that were then popular.Wright, Ann is the author of 'Russel Wright's Menu Cookbook A Guide to Easier Entertaining', published 2003 under ISBN 9781586852818 and ISBN 1586852817.
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