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 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 ...

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 ...

correctionThe Design column in the April 23 Style section contained an incorrect telephone number for Hillwood Museum & Gardens. The correct number is 202-686-8500. (Published 4/27/2005) Eva Zeisel's ...

Eva Zeisel, who designed and produced stylish but simple lines of tableware that were credited with bringing a sense of serenity to American dinnertime, died Dec. 30 at her home in New City, N.Y. Mrs.

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, a ceramic artist whose elegant, eccentric designs for dinnerware in the 1940s and ’50s helped to revolutionize how Americans set their tables, died Friday at 105 in New City, N.Y. Her ...

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 ...

Eva Zeisel, who has died aged 105, survived two of the most oppressive tyrannies of the 20th century to become one of the world's best-known ceramic designers and the creator of fine china tableware.