Vegetable Serving Plate, Residential Line

Russel Wright; Northern Industrial Chemical

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Object Label

Because of its low cost and easy care, plastic attracted both consumer and designer in the postwar era. Russel Wright worked with the chemical company American Cyanamid to develop a line of dinnerware from its patented plastic, Melamine. Although that venture was not successful, Wright soon found other companies to produce his designs for plastic dinnerware. Originally intended for institutional use, plastic dinnerware also found a place at home, and by 1957 Wright’s Residential line, produced by Northern Industrial Chemical, had door-to-door sales of $4 million.

Caption

Russel Wright American, 1904–1976; Northern Industrial Chemical. Vegetable Serving Plate, Residential Line, 1953 (pattern introduced). Plastic, 1 1/2 x 8 x 9 1/4 in. (3.8 x 20.3 x 23.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Paul F. Walter, 1999.29.48. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 1994.165.61_83.108.104_1999.29.48_83.108.104_83.108.91a-b_83.108.103_83.108.107.jpg)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Vegetable Serving Plate, Residential Line

Date

1953 (pattern introduced)

Medium

Plastic

Classification

Food/Drink

Dimensions

1 1/2 x 8 x 9 1/4 in. (3.8 x 20.3 x 23.5 cm)

Signatures

not signed

Inscriptions

no inscriptions

Markings

no marks

Credit Line

Gift of Paul F. Walter

Accession Number

1999.29.48

Rights

Creative Commons-BY

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