Eva Zeisel
Eva Zeisel
Eva Striker Zeiselwas a Hungarian-born American industrial designer known for her work with ceramics, primarily from the period after she migrated to the United States. Her forms are often abstractions of the natural world and human relationships. Work from throughout her prodigious career is included in important museum collections across the world. Zeisel declared herself a "maker of useful things"...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionDesigner
Date of Birth13 November 1906
eye hands design
My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
differences knows
I don't know the difference between working and not working.
hands bird clay
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
hands woods clay
Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.
looks finished ifs
When you begin your work, nothing exists. When it is finished it looks as if it just happened, spontaneously, effortlessly, convincingly. It looks as though it had been there all along.
beautiful thinking beautiful-things
If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.
world made wanted
I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.
be-kind shock grotesque
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
order support pottery
If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.
party artist people
My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.
novelty aesthetic commerce
Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.
The playful search for beauty.