What does the word quality mean to you? Quality means having a purpose forever. Favourite view? The fall leaves through the window of my studio. Greatest extravagance? Buying my country house and studio in Rockland county, while my husband was away on business. If you weren’t a designer, what would you be? A painter. 3 Desert Island items? Lots of paper, drawing tools and my design assistant, Olivia Barry. What qualities do you admire most in others?I admire their talents. Favourite city? Budapest, my beautiful hometown.

Eva Zeisel