The Metropolitan Museum of Art keeps it in its permanent collection. The tall double-knuckled vessel Bennington Potters founder David Gil calls a trigger mug is the best seller of more than 2,000 items he has designed over the past 52 years. It gives you kicks. I'm feeling what we get, then I'll vary it. Things that work, they have a comfort in people using them.
People use our stuff all the time.
It has a feel. It feels good and it satisfies. Some 200,000 customers visit Potters Yard near downtown Bennington each year. A satellite called Bennington Potters North began 25 years ago as a women's cooperative in Burlington's Historic Alchemist Building. The private corporation also mails 100,000 catalogs annually and sells to 1,000 dealers throughout the United States.