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Eva Zeisel | Ceramic Designer

Young Eva Zeisel was driven by two desires: to make beautiful things, and to see the world. Her long and legendary career in ceramics helped her do both. Born in Budapest in 1906, she apprenticed to a guild of potters as a teenager, then worked in Germany and later Russia (where she was imprisoned by Stalin for 16 months) and Vienna. Landing in New York in 1938 with her husband Hans, Zeisel began her second design career. A TED talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.https://www.ted.com/talks/eva_zeisel_on_the_playful_search_for_beauty Eva...

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