“I don't like to design single objects. I like my pieces to have a relationship to each other. They can be mother and child, like the Schmoo salt and pepper shakers, or brother and sister like the Birdie salt and peppers, or cousins, like most of my dinnerware sets.” ChildrenMotherPiecesDesignObjectsBrotherSaltBrothers And SistersCousinPeppersMother And ChildShakersSalt And Pepper Author:Eva Zeisel
“When I met my designs in the market of a remote village in the West Indies, or in the airport restaurant in Zurich, I felt like the mother of many well-behaved children.” WellsChildrenMotherFeltDesignMetsWestRestaurantsVillageAirportsWest IndiesZurich Author:Eva Zeisel
“On every hand there seems to be design to defeat design. If God created man - if he is the father of us all, why did he make the criminals, the insane, the deformed and idiotic? Should the mother, who clasps to her breast an idiot child, thank God?” IfsMenShouldChildrenHandsSeemsMotherFatherAtheismDesignDefeatPositive AtheismCriminalsInsaneIdiotBreastsThank GodIdiotic Book:The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.” EndsMovingJoyMotherPurposeUnderstandingHoursRoomsNumbersHalfDesignBuildingProjectsSummerModelsStructureSizeFinishedTinyGradesDevicesNutsMetalsAirplaneFourthPlasticCriteriaLiving RoomBoltsKindergartenFourth GradeNuts And BoltsMoving PartsHappy HourWarships Author:Steven Chu