Tuesday, February 8, 2011

The Television series, Madmen, has brought about a delightful resurgence is all things mid-century and atomic in design and style. Fabulous dinnerware in clean, sharp shapes and elegant in presentation are all the rage.



Made in the USA means something in this day of imports and imitations. Great Pottery Companies of the Ohio River Potteries and West Virginia, California and the Midwest, produced beautiful, functional and enduring dinnerware, art pieces, glass and stemware.



Names like Homer Laughlin, Taylor Smith Taylor, Knowles, Royal China Company, Bauer, Jeannette Glass, Hazel Atlas and New Martinsville Glass, to name just a few, are industry giants who are responsible for beautiful Eames period housewares so sought after today.



We will featuring some of these wonderful companies and showing examples of their fabulous productions. We will also be mixing them with contempory things of today to show you how simple and attractive these gems from the past are useful necessities of today.