It seems that all these pieces are about to speak to me. I sat there mesmerized after downloading a lot of images of her work. Designer, ceramist grande old dame Eva Zeisel’s work needs no introduction or great words. They just speak for themselves.![evazeisel1.gif](https://design-flute.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/evazeisel1.gif)
100 year old Eva Zeisel’s more than 75 years of extraordinary work is so alive that it just pushes us to sit up and think about our own life.
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Her views on life “Everything is unexpectedly colorful. Life is a present. That is why one shouldn’t have scandals, one shouldn’t have ill humor, one shouldn’t be cranky–that is the moment that is life. One should respect it.“
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“All my work is mother-and-child.”- Eva Zeisel.
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Her functional objects bend, stretch, reach. They recall birds, leaves, pregnant bodies, belly buttons and fruit with a pared-down elegance.
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“Everything I do is a direct creation of my hands, whether it is made in wood, plaster or clay.”–Eva Zeisel
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Her exuberant designs (above-belly button room dividers) show her playfulness.
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Just a little curve that is perfect and never a wrong curve, that is what her designs is all about.
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She is called an industrial (machine age modern) designer and her creations show ‘friendliness’, ‘family relations’.
I keep wondering about her spirits and I keep saluting this unstoppable lady’s works!
A few sites to see her work- (1) , (2) , (3) ,(4)
Images courtesy (& via) Evazeiselorangechicken, SignonSanDiego, Nambe, Mindspring