Presents essays that explore the design process, discussing such topics as texture, scale, and spontaneity, in a volume in which the designer compares her own creations with works from ancient and contemporary cultures.

Eva Zeisel on Design

Arts & Photography

Press, The Overlook

Zeisel, Eva

Individual Artists

Amulet Books

With a trailblazing career that spans more than seventy-five years and continues to this day, with recent creations that include a Martini glass featured in Bombay Sapphire ads and vases for Klein-Reid, Eva Zeisel stands at the forefront of modern designers. Her works are a reflection of a profoundly independent vision and are featured in the permanent collections of museums throughout the world, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art. 
 In this lavishly illustrated, full-color book, the designer for the first time communicates the ideas that have guided and inspired her. Each aspect of the design process is analyzed?variety, spontaneity, line, contour, shading, and texture, among others?to show how the best works are the result of a dialogue between creator and object, the result of which is an environment that is pleasurable, comfortable, and elegant. The language in which this dialogue is conducted, ?the language of things, ? is one in which Zeisel's fluency is unparalleled, and her thoughts, read alongside the photos of her stunning creations and those that have inspired her, make this book indispensable to every enthusiast of art, ceramics, and design.

Eva Zeisel On Design: The Magic Language of Things

Other Media

Abrams Press

Eva Zeisel's recounting of 16 months in a Soviet prison, 1936-37, at the beginning of the Stalinist purges. It includes original NKVD documents related to Zeisel's case, such as questionnaires and interrogation transcriptions. Also contains photos, poems written while she was in prison, 40 year old audio recordings of Eva recalling her time in prison, and video clips of her return visit, in 2000, to the Lomonosov factory in St. Petersburg where she had worked 63 years before.

Eva Zeisel: A Soviet Prison Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Brent C. Brolin

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