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Realizing his overnight success left him little time to actually make
the doughnuts," he says, Adler began working with Peruvian weavers
and potters through Aid to Artisans, a nonprofit organization that, says
Adler, "connects artisans in developing countries to help make products
for American markets in a very non-Kathie Lee Gifford way."
"It's all been very unexpected and serendipitous," says Adler, who has
homes in New York City, Shelter Island and Palm Beach. "When I start-
ed throwing pots, I thought I was making a conscious decision to turn my
back on the corporate world. I thought I was sacrificing money and glam-
our. I imagined myself making mugs at crafts fairs in Vermont — and I
was willing to do that because it was my passion. The fact that it hasn't
turned out that way is a really unexpected pleasure." ❑

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34000 S. Woodward Ave.
248.645.0500

Plymouth
570 S. Main St.
734.455.1100

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Adler's collection of Sgraffito (Italian

for "scratch"), where marks reveal a

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