EVA ZEISEL: DESIGNER FOR INDUSTRY
Eva Zeisel, Lillian Stewart, Martin Eidelberg
Eva Zeisel, Martin Eidelberg (essay), Lillian Stewart: EVA ZEISEL: DESIGNER FOR INDUSTRY. Montreal: Mussee Des Arts Decoratif (Distributed by the University of Chicago Press), 1984. First Edition. A near fine softcover copy in stiff, decorated wrappers: trace of wear to edges. Sole edition: never issued in hardcover. 9 x 12 softcover book with 120 pages and 154 color and b/w photographs. Includes a Checklist of the 32 items of the exhibition. Covers all aspects of Zeisel's prolific career upto 1984, including ceramics, furniture, dishware and other household goods. An invaluable guide and an uncommon volume.
Contents:
- Foreword by Lillian Stewart
- Acknowledgements
- Preface by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr.
- Eva Ziesel: Ceramist in an Industrial Age
- On Being a Designer by Eva Zeisel
- Exhibition checklist
- Bibliography of articles by E. Zeisel,
- List of 15 marks identifying her work.
In her 75-year career, Eva Zeisel has designed over 100,000 objects (including ceramics, tableware, glassware, and furniture) and led a remarkable life that has taken her from Hungary to early Soviet Russia, and finally to the United States. Her designs are a reflection of a strong independent character that is never professionally or personally constrained by convention, trends, or current ideology. The humanistic aspect of her design is universally felt in the way she combines organic interrelationships with abstract Modernist ideas.
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