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Russel Wright was born on 3 April, 1904 in Lebanon, Ohio, US, is an American industrial designer. Discover Russel Wright's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 3 April, 1904
Birthday 3 April
Birthplace Lebanon, Ohio, US
Date of death 21 December, 1976
Died Place New York City, New York, US
Nationality Lebanon

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Who Is Russel Wright's Wife?

His wife is Mary Small Einstein (1927–1952; her death)

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Russel Wright Net Worth

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1904

Russel Wright (April 3, 1904 – December 21, 1976) was an American industrial designer.

His best-selling ceramic dinnerware was credited with encouraging the general public to enjoy creative modern design at table with his many other ranges of furniture, accessories, and textiles.

The Russel and Mary Wright Design Gallery at Manitoga in upstate New York records how the "Wrights shaped modern American lifestyle".

Wright's approach to design came from the belief that the dining table was the center of the home.

Working outward from there, he designed tableware to larger furniture, architecture to landscaping, all fostering an easy, informal lifestyle.

It was through his popular and widely distributed housewares and furnishings that he impacted the way many Americans lived and organized their homes in the mid-20th century.

1927

In 1927 Wright married Mary Small Einstein, a designer, sculptor, and businesswoman, after a short yet carefree summer together in Woodstock, New York, where they were involved in the New York artist's Maverick Festival and artist colony.

Mary studied sculpture under Alexander Archipenko.

Together Mary and Russel went on to form Wright Accessories, a home accessories design business, and began creating small objects for the home consisting of cast metal animals and informal serving accessories of spun aluminum and other materials.

His theater career came to an end when George Cukor closed his Rochester, New York stock company at the end of 1927.

Upon returning to New York City, he started his own design firm making theatrical props and small decorative cast metal objects.

Although firmly rooted in the Midwest, he spent the entirety of his professional artistic career in New York, employing such early instrumental modern design practitioners and artists as Petra Cabot, Henry P. Glass and Hector Leonardi in his growing industrial design firm.

Russel Wright was born in Lebanon, Ohio into a historic old American family, Wright's mother had direct lineage with two signers of the Declaration of Independence, and his father and grandfather were local judges.

Both his parents were Quakers.

1930

His simple, practical style was influential in persuading ordinary Americans to embrace Modernism in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.

Wright's trademarked signature was the first to be identified with lifestyle-marketed products.

Wright designed several popular lines of Melmac melamine resin plastic dinnerware for the home and did early research on plastic Melmac dinnerware for restaurant use.

Wright designed a succession of popular furniture lines for many furniture companies beginning in the early 1930s through the 1950s.

1935

His most popular line of essentially Art Deco American Modern "blonde" wooden furniture was produced by the Conant-Ball company of Gardner, Massachusetts between 1935 and 1939, and bore the branded mark "American Modern Built by Conant-Ball Co. Designed by Russel Wright".

Wright also worked with the Old Hickory Furniture Company in Martinsville, Indiana on unique rustic furniture with Wright's modern stylings.

1939

Wright is best known for his colorful American Modern design, the most widely sold American ceramic dinnerware in history, manufactured between 1939 and 1959 by Steubenville Pottery in Steubenville, Ohio.

1942

The collection was introduced in 1942 and some of the designs stayed popular through the 1950s.

Russel's early art training was under Frank Duveneck at the Art Academy of Cincinnati while still in high school.

While following his family's tradition of studying for a legal career at Princeton University, he was a member of the Princeton Triangle Club and won several Tiffany & Co. prizes for outstanding World War I memorial sculptures.

This, along with the urging of his academic adviser at Princeton, confirmed his conviction gained in the year before college while a student at the Art Students League of New York under Kenneth Hayes Miller and Boardman Robinson, that his future was in the field of art.

Wright left Princeton for the New York City theater world and quickly became a set designer for Norman Bel Geddes.

This early association with the theater led to further work with George Cukor, Lee Simonson, Robert Edmond Jones, and Rouben Mamoulian.

1950

The couple also wrote the best-selling Guide to Easier Living in 1950, which described how to reduce housework and increase leisure time through efficient design and household management.

Russel Wright Studios continues to work with corporate and public clients in the licensing and manufacturing of his designs and products.

As with his ceramic dinnerware, Wright began designing his Melmac only in solid colors, but by the end of the 1950s created several patterns ornamented with decoration, usually depicting plant forms.

1951

Another iconic design was Wright's "American Modern" flatware designs for John Hull Cutlers Corporation in c. 1951.

He also designed top selling wooden furniture, spun aluminum dining accessories and textiles.

1952

Wright's only child, Annie, was only two years old when Mary died in 1952, necessitating Wright's raising their adopted daughter as a single parent.

Annie Wright continues to manage her father's designs and products through Russel Wright Studios.

1953

Wright's first Melmac line of plastic dinnerware for the home, called "Residential" was manufactured by Northern Plastic Company of Boston beginning in 1953.

"Residential" received the Museum of Modern Art Good Design Award in 1953.

1957

"Residential" was one of the most popular Melmac lines with gross sales of over $4 million in 1957.

The line remained popular for many years continuing in production by Home Decorators, Inc. of Newark, New York.

1959

Wright introduced his Melmac dinnerware line called "Flair" in 1959.

One of the patterns of "Flair", called "Ming Lace" has the actual leaves of the Chinese jade orchid tree tinted and embedded inside the translucent plastic.