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American design

Libbey Glass Company, Punch Bowl and stand with 23 cups, 1904, thick colorless glass, 54.6 x 60.6 x 60.6 cm, 134 pounds (Toledo Museum of Art) — This dazzling, prismatic, brilliant cut glass creates a universe of pattern and reflection.

American brilliance at the St. Louis World’s ...

by Diane C. Wright, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Beth Harris

Ku Klux Klan robe, c. 1928 (The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford) — Artifacts like this are key for reminding us of a history of racism that is all too easy to forget.

Connecticut Klan robe

by Dr. William Frank Mitchell, The Amistad Center for Art & Culture at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker

Chair, c. 1948, attributed to Henry Turchin, design direction by Louis Dierra, manufactured by the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA), slumped plate glass, metal, woven textile (Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City) — A single piece of glass composes most of this chair, and its sleek design upends traditional furniture design.

Glass Chair at the 1939 New York ...

by Dr. Emily Orr and Dr. Steven Zucker

Russel Wright, made by Steubenville Pottery, Steubenville, OH, “American Modern” pitchers, 1939, earthenware — Pour a little out for the proletariat: the Robin Hood of earthenware pitchers brought modern design to the people.

Russel Wright, “American Modern” Pitchers

by Dianne Pierce