Max and Rita Lawrence Architectural Pottery Records, ca. 1950-1994

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Max and Rita Lawrence Architectural Pottery Records, ca. 1950-1994

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Rita and Max Lawrence began the firm Architectural Pottery (1950) to produce and market the pottery container designs of students of LaGardo Tackett, professor at California School of Art. In 1971, the company name was changed to Group Artec and began producing office furniture, public seating, tile, kiosks, modern dinner ware, and building directories (signage). The collection consists of records of the firm Architectural Pottery/Group Artec and includes correspondence, publicity materials, photographic slides and scrapbooks.

11 boxes; (5.5 linear ft.); 3 oversize boxes

eng,

University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6653954

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Lawrence, Max

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Architectural Pottery (Firm : Los Angeles, Calif.)

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Almost a lifetime resident of Los Angeles, Rita Milaw Lawrence was graduated from UCLA in 1940 (political science snd sociology). Earlier that year she was married to Max Lawrence, a New Yorker she met after he moved to Los Angeles following his graduation from City College of New York; in 1950 they began the firm Architectural Pottery to produce and market the pottery container designs of students of LaGardo Tackett, professor at California School of Art; began issuing catalogs in September 195...

Lawrence, Rita

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