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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.

~Eva Zeisel

Topics: Attractive Designer Does Equally Every Follow Form Function Must Nor Process Production Solutions Understand Use

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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

Topics: Airport Children Designs Felt Indies Like Many Market Met Mother Remote Restaurant Village West

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My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

~Eva Zeisel

Topics: Bodily Body Shell Very Work

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When I design something, I think of it as a gift to somebody else.

~Eva Zeisel

Topics: Design Else Gift Somebody Something Think I Think

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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

Topics: Concept Design Home How Men Should Things Use Women

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I am a maker of useful things.

~Eva Zeisel

Topics: Am Maker Things Useful I Am

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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.

~Eva Zeisel

Topics: Aesthetic Because Call Commerce Concept Designer Designers Industrial Make Myself Novel Novelty Other Things Want

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Biography

Nationality: Hungarian

Type: Designer

Born: November 13th, 1906

Died: December 30th, 2011

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