My work is very bodily. It's not a shell, but a body.

The playful search for beauty.

If I hadn't been a designer, I'd have been a painter. I began as a painter and learned the craft of pottery in order to support myself.

Men have no concept of how to design things for the home. Women should design the things they use.

My time in Weimar Berlin was the most elegant in my life. I would have parties for a hundred people - writers, scientists, artists.

My designs are meant to attract the hand as well as the eye.

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.