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Show Page C6 -- THE DAILY HERALD, (ww.HarVTheHCTld.com), Provo, Utah, Friday, March 28, 2003 PorcelaiiJ designer's cup of te4 ter of Peter the Great There expuMon, and rejoined her family in Austria, where they soon had to flee the a teacup. Last summer, he .Nazis. At 96, ceramist and Zeisel arrived in New spent three months in her design icon Eva Zeisel is I bucolic studiocountry house York in 193a Her freelance spirited but frail. More to 45 minutes from Manhattan, clients came to include the point, she is still work- - i 'translating her sketches into Rosenthal and Sears, ing-i a trio of plates, a teapot, Rnphnck. Shu taiicht nniwr. recent In years, she has sugar, creamer and saucer. industrial design created a whimsical martini "It was not only very interand developed a line of col--. for Bombay Sapphire glass esting, but he was the best lapsible chairs and tables Gin ads, vases and pitchers modelmaker I ever worked remains in prototype, for Brooklyn ceramists ' with," Zeisel said by teleOne cherished project may KleinReid, and a tea service phone. "He made plates with yet be realized. Karen Ketter- for the venerable Lomonosov the greatest sensitivity I Porcelain Factory near St have ever seen. He went back with a huge box." The Petersburg, where she duo spoke Russian, which worked in the early 1930s. she learned in the 1930s by This last project comes nearly seven decades after studying the dictionary. Zeisel's life story is as comshe left Russia. Zeisel estimates she has pelling as her body of work. Born into a prosperous, designed 100,000 objects over a lifetime, from perintellectual family, she studied art and ceramics and e fume bottles to drinking glasses, from 1920s then honed her skills in sevavant-gard-e eral German pottery factostage sets in ries. At 25, she went to the Hungary to highly prized Soviet Union on a lark. and increasingly valuable Within days, she was hired American tableChina and ware: "Town and Country by the state-ru- n Glass Trust in Ukraine and for Red Wing, "Century" and "Tomorrow's Classic" for Hall six months after that was designing for Lomonosov. China, and "Museum" by But in 1936, despite her Castleton for the Museum of Modern Art. Their sensuous, promotion to artistic director of the China and Glass organic lines remain her artistic signature. Industry in Russia, she was The Lomonosov project jailed for 16 months on the charge of plotting to kill began in 2000, when she returned to the factory Joseph Stalin. She feared execution but instead got founded in 1744 by a daugh By ANNIE GROER . Zeisel worked with model-makGyorgi Bugdevich on er The Washington Poal - Nori-tak- e. sity-lev- Th,s el 1935 tea set is owned by Hillwood Museum. Zeisel ing, Hillwood Museum's asso- date curator for Russian art, is neariy finished transiting Zeisel's 250-pag- e KGB inter-- ; v . '. 'i , Sohcrrifk wasincarcera-tha- t tion that Zeisel obtained an official pardon before setting foot in Russia again. v rogation file and hopes to flesh it out with the design- ers own unpublished prison ... , memoir, : dime-stor- mid-centur- y f- fV'-B- Motor ' jhc li. Ins $ r Parts I s5" s e9' m 40t300H.22M9184ul)- (Behind VfienersdmitzeD ; ;j-J..- , 4-us- 6 ; I DelL' Filters. g, cwutpi: visQ : kHWM wem& 7 4 f ducation l I) :- Iff3 J- For the best Career Training, Collet Institutes & Academies in Turn to Page 2 of TUe 2. ' ...... Herald Classifieds even There you will fLu ... MP Z1 1 industries leaders wiiU in the following f Medical Transcription Dental Assisting Ophthalmic Assisting Medical Specialist Advanced Massage TLer.v, Medical Coding ID Web DesignDevekp.v.Ci... J ; , c Graphic Design Hair Styling ' Denul 0Gcc Ms ' n l o ji t, pistes an! " Pliarraac.7 Technician ' Surgical Technologist ' Wt Gladly Accept: Dental Technician ProvcT 2250 N. Universily ' Spanish Fork 784 Chappel Plcwy. Dr. FRL 28 fpQI QoyHiHw. Wot rwpoflsiblg for prtnfgd Of pclofW grrofi. I I JUti I MON. 19 j 30 j 31 j SAL I TUE. 1 I |
