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Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.
Eva Zeisel
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Eva Zeisel
Age: 105 †
Born: 1906
Born: November 13
Died: 2011
Died: December 30
Ceramicist
Designer
Industrial Designer
Sculptor
Buda Pest
Eva Amalia Striker
Eva Alexandrovina Polanyi Stricker
Mrs. Alexander Weissburg
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When you have clay in your hands, it's hard to avoid making birds.
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I think with my hands. I design things to be touched-not for a museum. A piece is ready when it has the shape of something to cherish.
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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.
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I am a maker of useful things.
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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.
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If you think of beautiful things, you’re not sad.
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Beautiful things make people happy.
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I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind.
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When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.
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The pleasure of making things beautiful or useful involves your feelings as well as your thinking. When your original sketch evolves into a tangible, three-dimensional object, your heart is anxiously following the process of your work. And the love involved in making it is conveyed to those for whom you made it.
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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.
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I don't know the difference between working and not working.
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