Men have no concept
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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Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use. Eva Zeisel
When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else. Eva Zeisel
When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children. Eva Zeisel
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. Eva Zeisel
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. Eva Zeisel
My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye. Eva Zeisel
I don’t like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets. Eva Zeisel
And when comfort is what we want, one of the most powerful tonics alternative medicine offers is the word ‘natural.’ This word implies a medicine untroubled by human limitations, contrived wholly by nature or God or perhaps intelligent design. What ‘natural’ has come to mean to us in the context of medicine is ‘pure’ and … Read more
Thousands of engineers can design bridges, calculate strains and stresses, and draw up specifications for machines, but the great engineer is the man who can tell whether the bridge or the machine should be built at all, where it should be built, and when. Eugene Grace
Contentment: The smother of invention. Ethel Mumford