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© Azzedine Alaia / winter 2010 Photo: Robert Kot (via What’s up! trouvaillesdujour: Azzedine Alaia in the 21st Century)
© Azzedine Alaia / zomer / summer 2010
Photo: Robert Kot
(via What’s up! trouvaillesdujour: Azzedine Alaia in the 21st Century)
Eva Zeisel, design pioneer, turns 105 today. Happy Birthday Eva!
Before we can make things that are pleasant to see, we must find pleasure in seeing the things that are offered to our sight. We take note of the flamboyant, extraordinary sights, but we must also seek out the innumerable irrelevant shapes and lines on which our glance can alight and invest them with meaning, as patterns or forms we can enjoy. We must learn to see…and to enjoy. —Eva Zeisel
My earlier post about Eva here.
picture credits:Talisman Photo, SolarPoweredKate, LA Times
Stig Lindberg (1916-1982), the prolific Swedish designer who spent most of his career at the Gustavsberg pottery factory. Lindberg studied at the Swedish State School of arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, with the intention of becoming a painter. He started at Gustavsberg in 1937 and became their art director in 1949. He remained with the company until 1980, when he retired to Italy to set up his own studio. (via Marshall Colman Design: STIG LINDBERG’S BIOMORPHIC CERAMICS)
Sophie Theallet
McQueen butterfly dress
From the back…Alexander McQueen butterfly dress
Eva Zeisel—a huge design inspiration for me, plus a pretty amazing woman. She is still working at 104!
Born in Budapest in 1906, Eva Stricker entered the Royal Academy of Fine Arts at age 17, intending to become a painter, but her mother prevailed upon her to learn some trade whereby she could earn a living, so Eva apprenticed herself to a traditional potter, achieving journeyman status and awards for her work. After working in Budapest she moved to Schramberg, Germany, where she acquired skills in all phases of industrial production and became one of the first (and certainly the first woman) to move the ceramic arts into contemporary mass production.
In 1932 she went to Russia on vacation in order to experience the new artistic and social movements there, as did many other idealistic young artists and intellectuals. As an experienced industrial designer she was soon offered a position assisting in the modernization of the ceramic industry, eventually leading to her appointment as Artistic Director for the Porcelain and Glass Industries for the entire country.
In 1936, however, she was caught up in one of the Stalinist purges, accused of plotting against the life of Stalin. She was imprisoned in the NKVD prison for 16 months, most of the time in solitary confinement. She was subjected to early forms of brainwashing, torture, and the constant possibility that each day would be her last. (Arthur Koestler, a lifelong friend, based his book Darkness at Noon on her prison experiences.)
After being expelled from Russia, Zeisel fled to Vienna, but left when the Nazis invaded. Emigrating to the United States, Zeisel became a prominent industrial designer, and in 1946 was honoured with the first one-woman show at the Museum of Modern Art.
(adapted from the bio at evazeisel.org)
Isabel & Ruben Toledo’s Apartment
(via Isabel Toledo’s New York Apartment and Studio New York Magazine 2.12.06 | Apartment Therapy New York)
Koloman Moser, 1868-1918
Designer of furniture, stained glass, ceramics, silver & jewelry, postage stamps, textiles & clothing, as well as a graphic designer, painter & illustrator.
Founding member of the Vienna Succession & of the Wiener Werkstatte.
(via the textile blog: Textile Design Work of Koloman Moser)
Isabel Toledo designs, photos by Stephen Gan. From Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out, by Valerie Steele and Patricia Meares.
Isabel Toledo design, photographed by Ruven Afanador. From Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out, by Valerie Steele and Patricia Meares.
Isabel and Ruben Toledo photographed by Karl Lagerfeld
