As ceramist and designer Eva Zeisel approached her eightieth birthday, she returned to her native country, Hungary, to do some design work for the Zsolnay Pottery and the Kispester Pottery. The Kispester Pottery factory is where Zeisel had begun her career sixty years before. This work marked the completion of a cycle that had taken Zeisel all over the world to participate in design projects. Over her lengthy career, the early whimsical Viennese inspired studio ceramics that she created in Budapest evolved into the fluid like organic and biomorphic forms and patterns that were mass produced after WW2 in the U.S. by large companies like Red Wing, Castleton, and Hall.
Zeisel’s lifetime of dedication to good design assures that her contributions will make a lasting impact on the twentieth century.
For a more thorough discussion of Zeisel and industrial designer's objects as fine art, see
"Eva Zeisel and the Industrial Design Revolution"
, by Amanda Boyaki.
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