WattsOS
DH
Double Helix Flatware
1985 · Stainless steel
.1 (knife): 9 1/8 x 1/2" (23.2 x .3 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Ward Bennett
American, 1917
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
1960–1961
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Modern Handmade Jewelry
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946
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Ward Bennett was an American designer and sculptor who worked across furniture, tableware, and architectural elements with a modernist vocabulary rooted in geometric reduction and material restraint. Active from the 1950s onward, he developed a distinctive approach that married industrial production with craft sensibility, creating objects of spare elegance in wood, metal, and ceramics. His work exemplified postwar American design's synthesis of functionalism and refined aesthetics.
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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