To prove that beauty and utility can live together, the Everyday Art Gallery in Minneapolis' Walker Art Center has exhibited everything from ice tongs to paring knives. Last week, it was dishes.
Fanciers of Wedgwood and Spode (or cheap imitations) stared coldly at the clean, uninhibited lines, the unadorned and self-sufficient surfaces of modern dinnerware by such topnotch U.S. designers as Eva Zeisel (Castleton China) and show-stopper Florence Forst. But to many Everyday Gallery visitors, one of the show's designers was an old table and dishpan friend: Russel Wright, who has thrown pottery...
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