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
home men design
Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
eye hands design
My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.
thinking design
When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
use doe designer
The designer must understand that form does not follow function nor does form follow a production process. For every use and for every production process there are innumerable equally attractive solutions.
want novelty designer
I don't call myself an 'industrial designer,' because I'm other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.
curves vocabulary design
Modernism, rebelling against the ornament of the 19th century, limited the vocabulary of the designer. Modernism emphasized straight lines, eliminating the expressive S curve. This made it harder to communicate emotions through design.
art ego
Art has more ego to it than what I do.
beautiful people making-people-happy
Beautiful things make people happy.
world made wanted
I made the things particularly because I wanted them to see the world.
hands woods clay
Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.
hands bird clay
When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
differences knows
I don't know the difference between working and not working.
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.
makers useful-things
I am a maker of useful things.