Elizabeth Mistry

Feb 19, 2025 | theartnewspaper.com | Andrew Pulver |Rachel Spence |Elizabeth Mistry

One of Los Angeles’s defining mid-century design companies began at the kitchen table of a young couple living in a new housing tract in Mar Vista. In 1950 Max and Rita Lawrence, enamoured with post-war aesthetics, launched Architectural Pottery, producing ceramics to suit the new Modernist homes popping up all over Southern California.