Potter Studio

American, active 1915–1928

LocationCleveland, Ohio, United States

Biographyhttp://www.chicagosilver.com/potter.htm

Along with Louis Rorimer of the Rokesley Shop, and the team of Jane Carson and Frances Barnum, Horace Potter was one of the founders and key figures in the Cleveland School of Arts & Crafts metalwork. Potter, who was influenced by England's Charles Robert Ashbee, went on to create the Potter Studio, which sold jewelry and silver and brass holloware.

In 1928 Gurdon W. Bentley and Potter became partners, moved the shop to its current location, and renamed it Potter Bentley Studios. The new shop expanded to sell items such as china and garden accessories. Bentley dissolved the partnership in 1933, and that year Louis Mellen joined the company, which was renamed to its present Potter and Mellen, Inc.

H.E. Potter
1897-1907

Potter Shop
1908-1915

Potter Studio
1915-1924

Potter Studio, Inc.
1925-1928

Potter-Bentley Studios
1928-1933

Potter and Mellen
1933 - present

Person TypeCorporate Body