Jonathan Adler has always treated glamour like oxygen—necessary, intoxicating, and freely available to anyone bold enough to breathe deeply. His work doesn’t sit politely on a coffee table; it shimmies. It sparkles with a bit of naughtiness, intelligence, and a delicious refusal to take the world too seriously. Clay in his hands becomes personality, attitude, a wink disguised as form. So when the Museum of Arts and Design honored him at this year’s MAD Ball, the night felt less like a tribute and more like a cultural celebration of joy itself—joy as craft, joy as design language, joy as revolutionary act.

At the Museum of Arts and Design’s annual MAD Ball, Adler was honored not merely for his talent, but for his cultural impact. The evening was not a dinner. It was a tribute to the power

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