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Getting the history of Midcentury Design right! Here's my chance!

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Feb 12, 2023
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Rare and only known example of this slip cast form in original ebony-brown glaze, designed and handcrafted by Weston Neil Andersen in the late forties.

Andersen Design is a midcentury American ceramic designer-craftsmen studio production started in 1952 on Southport Island Maine by my parents Weston and Brenda Andersen. Although there exists a large body of work of original glazes bodies and form designs, including functional forms and wildlife sculpture, you will not find Andersen Design on Wikipedia. I was aware that Wikipedia preferred third parties to submit a writeup but after decades of waiting for that to happen, one day I decided to submit a small edit to the Wikipedia page on Midcentury design. where many of my parents’ colleagues and associates are written about in the industrial design section but the admin at Wikipedia would not allow it.

So I decided ChatGPT offers a window of opportunity to get in on recorded history before the gates are permanently closed. I am aware tha…

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