2005-06-29 04:00:00 PDT New York-- A few months ago, designer Eva Zeisel was contacted by Swarovski, the Austrian cut-crystal manufacturer. They asked her to submit ideas for designs and said they'd ...

About the time industrial designer Eva Zeisel was born in Budapest in 1906, Morse code was the fastest way of telegraphing a message and radio was in its infancy. Although these technologies are ...

Swooping up and around in whimsical curves, the ceramics designs of Eva Zeisel seem to almost come alive. "I do curves because I'm curvy -- meaning I am a little bit fat," she says. Considered one of ...

Hungarian artist Eva Zeisel in her later years. This undated photo is part of an exhibit entitled "Life Design and Beauty" on display at the Museum of the American Hungarian Foundation thru September ...

Eva Zeisel, one of the most influential industrial designers of the 20th century who created lyrical yet practical tableware and ceramics, has died. She was 105. Zeisel, whose deceptively simple ...

Two years ago, Dick Stevens was at a dinner party where every guest was involved in design. Stevens himself heads the Metropolitan Museum’s department that reproduces art to sell in its gift shop.

All Things Considered host Melissa Block remembers Eva Zeisel, one of the premier ceramic designers of the last century. She died last week at her New City, N.Y., home at the age of 105. This is ALL ...

NEW YORK —Eva Zeisel, who died Dec. 30 at 105, designed some of the 20th century’s most seductive objects and survived its greatest horrors. Arthur Koestler, her lifelong friend and sometime lover, ...

Steve Jobs' name can be found on most end-of-year notable death lists having to do with product design, but the industrial design world lost another very influential figure just as 2011 slipped into ...

Editors’ note: The following is an excerpt from the monograph Eva Zeisel On Design: The Magic Language Of Things[i] (Overlook Press, 2004). Zeisel, a grande dame of mid-century modern design, died ...

Eva Zeisel is one of the most famous modern designers in the world – mostly for the elegant, organic shapes of her midcentury tableware, but also for her furniture, tiles and light fixtures. But her ...