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Monday, 09 May 2016 11:46

Collector George Kravis Gifts Important Design Objects to the Cooper Hewitt

Russel Wright (1904–76), Four American Modern pitchers, designed 1937. Glazed earthenware, each: 10¾ x 8⅛ x 6½ (27.3 x 20.6 x 16.5 cm). Produced by Steubenville Pottery Company, Steubenville, Ohio K2008.107. Russel Wright (1904–76), Four American Modern pitchers, designed 1937. Glazed earthenware, each: 10¾ x 8⅛ x 6½ (27.3 x 20.6 x 16.5 cm). Produced by Steubenville Pottery Company, Steubenville, Ohio K2008.107.

George Kravis II, one of the country’s top collectors of industrial design, has donated a number of important objects to the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum in New York. Among the gifts are a set of Ruba Rombic vases and a decanter by Reuben Haley, whose graceful, geometric works were inspired by Cubist paintings; an aluminum and walnut punch bowl and a set of sculptural pitchers by Russel Wright; and a Wells Coates AD65 radio that is particularly near and dear to the collector’s hear

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