Bennington Pottery
Bennington Art Pottery Bennington Potters was founded in 1948 by a young potter named David Gil. David had just finished his studies and graduated from Alfred University, which even then was renowned for its ceramics program - considered by many to be the finest in this country. As fate would have it, David jumped at the opportunity to purchase a small barn near downtown Bennington, Vermont, where he began what would become his life's work - designing and producing handcrafted pottery intended for everyday use, functional and affordable art for discerning individuals. (Story continues below products)
So began the tradition of Bennington Potters.
During the late '60s and early '70s, when interest in handcrafts exploded, Bennington Potters grew with it. Bennington Pottery is now considered a destination by both craft-pottery collectors and those who appreciate the warmth of country decor.
Well into their sixth decade now, Bennington Potters has come a long way from that unheated barn studio and they maintained the values that took them there in the first place - the commitment to producing objects that, as the great English ceramist, Bernard Leach, put it, "have a genuine heartbeat." These objects, whose forms feel so perfectly suited to the human hand, and whose visual lines both spring from and touch the human heart, are, and will continue to be, the essence of Bennington Pottery.
