Greetings World, It’s time for a new Andersen Design website for a new time in my life and in world history. Once this was a family business with other people involved and a production facility in the home. It was a fully engaging life style but now every one who was involved on a day to day basis has passed and I am responsible to the assets. I call them productivity assets and it is is my goal to leave in good hands so that others may benefit from what my family created, which includes the beautiful hand crafted objects and also the work process. It was not easy to create an independent life style and business. Andersen Design grew the old fashioned way- by pulling itself up by the boot straps. The productivity assets can make it easier for others to establish an engaging lifestyle of making ceramics and other crafts.

So I decided it is time for a new website and it will be a work in progress. Perhaps it will be like writing a book. I will discover the purpose by engaging in the process.

See Andersen Design Ceramics and art by our talented family and friends at my Gallery at mackenzieandersen.com, Make a purchase and make my day!

I am starting the Business in Residence Zone support movement from the grass roots. Andersen Design is an iconic leader for this movement, having started in 1952 as a business in a home as the Boothbay Peninsula’s original ceramic studio around which a cluster industry soon emerged. During the seven decades in which Andersen Design operated as a business in a home, not once were the words “business in a home” ever uttered in public housing our economic development discussions.

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