the russel & mary wright design gallery

**AWARDS**
**2022 LIT Lighting Design Award for Visitor Experience & Museum Exhibition**
**2022 Chicago Athenaeum, American Architecture Award**
**2022 Chicago Athenaeum,** **International Architecture Award**
**2022 Illuminating Engineering Society of North America, NY Chapter, Merit Award**
**2021 Society of American Registered Architects, National Council, Honor Award**
**2021 Society of American Registered Architects, New York Council, Design Award**
EXHIBITION CREDITS
Curator: Donald Albrecht / Exhibition and Graphic Designer: STUDIO JOSEPH / Lighting Designer: Anita Jorgensen / Architectural Consultant: James Hartford, River Architects / General Contractor: Tiny Houses / Exhibition Fabricator: South Side Design & Building / Executive Director: Allison Cross / Director of Collections: Vivian Linares

Opened in May 2021, the Russel & Mary Wright Design Gallery tells the story of how the Wrights shaped modern American lifestyle – from early experiments in spun aluminum in the 1930s and the colorful rounded forms of American Modern and Iroquois Casual mix & match dinnerware to Japanese inspired patterns and textures decades later. The display of over 200 objects is the only permanent, in-depth public exhibition of the Wrights’ product designs anywhere. READ FULL PRESS RELEASE.

The project was developed by Allison Cross, Manitoga Executive Director with: Vivian Linares, Manitoga Director of Collections, Interpretation & Preservation; Curator Donald Albrecht, author and co-curator of Russel Wright: Creating American Lifestyle, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum; and Wendy Evans Joseph, FAIA, LEED AP, award-winning exhibition designer, architect, and founding principal of Studio Joseph, NYC. Additional design direction from architect James Hartford, AIA, LEED AP, Partner, River Architects and Charles Burleigh Interior Design. Lighting Design by Anita Jorgensen. Exhibition fabrication by South Side Design & Building. Specialty Contractor Lars Lindbergh / Tiny Houses.

Lead support has been provided through a generous grant from the Henry Luce Foundation which seeks to enrich public discourse by promoting innovative scholarship, cultivating new leaders, and fostering international understanding. Additional major support provided by the Sara Little Turnbull Foundation, David Diamond & Karen Zukowski, Lyn & John Fischbach, Tom Krizmanic, Gary & Laura Maurer, David M. and Nanci H. McAlpin, Melissa Meyers & Wilbur Foster, Dennis Mykytyn, Jon L. Stryker & Slobodan Randjelovic, the Estate of George R. Kravis II, the Frank B. R. Sahm Jr. Charitable Foundation, and the W.I.L.D. Foundation.

Special thanks to the collectors and institutions whose gifts of Russel and Mary Wright product designs to Manitoga’s Design Collection made this exhibition possible: Joe Chapman, Al & Kim Eiber, Lyn Fischbach, Florence K. Foss, Audrey Hudacek, Mary and Charles Knauff, George R. Kravis II Collection, Gary & Laura Maurer, Melissa Meyers, the Museum of the City of New York, Dennis Mykytyn, Robert and Mazal Schonfeld, Robert Seal and Michael Pfannenstiel, Helen & Leo Steinlein, Zane Stewart, Elizabeth Szancer & Tom Zoufaly, Tiebout Family, Ann Wright, Michele and Martin Yeeles.

PLEASE NOTE: The Russel & Mary Wright Design Gallery is available by Guided Tour.