News detail for Made in Vermont: Designer Pottery
May 17, 2008

Philip Moros can say he has the best chef in the world. He chuckles, "I could not work for someone else for the moment!"

The boss is his wife Beth Mueller. She spends her days to decorate pottery Moros created by pouring liquid into molds clay, then cutting semi-hard shapes and cooking in an oven.

Müller remembers: "We actually met working together. It was a line cook and I was a waitress. "

They now run the Beth Mueller Studio Bar their home. What began as a love for ceramic learned in a college classroom has become a twenty-year mark. Mueller said: "Now, with the [U.S.] dollar too low, it was great for [our] International Business".

It sends wholesale customers in Europe, Australia and major U.S. cities over fifty forms of bowls, plates, vases and decorations, each pencil and painted with tiny cartoon-like illustrations and a word or phrase like "fortunately "For a wedding or design" moo "for a drink.

Mueller said, "What I do now really has a Vermont feel to it: sweet, simple, rural, low-tech."

But Vermont few stores carry his line, perhaps because it is a large wholesale buyers shows outside the state. Last month, she delivered alone nearly 5,000 articles. His company took off about fifteen years ago when a handful of design magazines featuring its line, which succeeds in bridging the gap between classical and contemporary.

Mueller said: "There is a trend towards the rear handmade things. Everyone is excited about all the imports for some time. But you see it in all incarnations, a trend toward things made by hand. "

Mueller made a habit of working for National Geographic, including Russian representative walruses and cups with penguins, and was a turning point in many themes politico-pottery this election year, as cups painted with the United States, U.S. Senate.

With so many ships, this husband and wife team is busy. Their pottery world, but that's all "Made in Vermont."

Beth Mueller smiles, saying: "I really like things!"

Beth Mueller of the pottery sells for between $ 24 and $ 60. LACE, the local farming community in exchange Barre, is part of a handful of stores that carries the decorations, but they are also sold on the website Mueller.

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