Creative Times has an interview with legendary glassware designer, Eve Ziesel. Here’s a short excerpt. Read the rest at Creative Times, Eleanor Taubman’s cool blog.

I first learned about Eva Zeisel during a June 2006 episode of CBS News Sunday Morning.
She was born in 1938 to a Jewish family in Hungary, and, over the
course of her life, has designed roughly 100,000 glass and ceramic
objects. As a young adult, she was made Director of Glass and China for
the USSR. A year later, she was arrested and imprisoned for 16 months
in Moscow on suspicion of plotting to assassinate Stalin (!). Twelve of
those months she spent in solitary confinement. She was released for
reasons unknown to her.