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Eva Zeisel: Industrial Designer for the AgesShe first created a splash in American housewares more than 50 years ago. But today, Eva Zeisel might be hotter than ever.
The Hungarian-born industrial designer best known for her curvaceous dinnerware has come out with a picture book, Eva Zeisel on Design: The Magic Language of Things (Overlook, $37.50), and she's the subject of a touring exhibition.
And in her Manhattan apartment, her classic mid-century tableware and glasses jockey for space with myriad recently designed products -- everything from stylish platters, lamps and pen sets, to vases that nestle vertically or sidle up to one another.
There's an eye-popping glass table with an orange-resin base she created for Dune. There are early mock-ups of jewelry she's doing with another designer.
Members of the Eva Zeisel Forum are preparing not one but three volumes on her prolific output, and Karen Kettering, curator of the traveling exhibition; Eva Zeisel: The Playful Search for Beauty, is busy collaborating with the designer on a new biography.
All this on the heels of a 2003 monograph (by Lucie Young for Chronicle Books) and documentary (Jyll Johnstone's Throwing Curves).
'It's overwhelming,' Zeisel's assistant, Allen Cordell, says of all the projects. 'She just came back from Knoxville [Museum of Art, the exhibition's first stop], where she signed 500
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