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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Eva Zeisel, one of the most important women of the 20th century, lived to be 105, dying just the day before this new year, peacefully during an afternoon nap. She was a great personage of industrial ...

This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Melissa Block. A moment now to remember a woman who captured the world in graceful lines and sensuous curves. Eva Zeisel was a renowned ceramic ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...