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A Twist of Fate Unearths a I950s Time Capsule!
Revealing that nothing has changed in politics, merely evolved! Brochure concept found in Time Capsule — the beginnings of the Andersen Design brand development Starting a ceramic design and slipcasting business is not easy. It took fifteen years of living on the edge to establish Andersen Design on a comfortable economic foundation that allowed my parents to send…
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Colin Woodard’s History of Andersen Design
WHEN I WAS A BOY in the late 1970s and early 1980s, 1 would see my grandparents’ handiwork everywhere: on the windowsill of a doctor’s office, on the coffee table at a stranger’s cottage, on display in countless retail shops from Boston to Bar Harbor. One of their stoneware sculptures—my grandmother’s seagull, wings tucked for…
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Andersen Design In 1952
Andersen Design was started in 1952 by Weston and Brenda Andersen Customized just for You A Husband and Wife Team of Midcentury Industrial Designers Who Took a Unique Path She was from London, and he was from Iowa, and they met and got married during World War II In the fifties, the middle class was…
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A Very Short Outsider’s Take on History
Certain people portray critical thought as whining, so as long as I am being so branded, I thought I’d have a go at it! Let’s Whine! I have a mountain of historical documents to preserve about which no one cares but me. My local historical society, like every other Maine resource here to help…