CARI ZALLONI ‘CONTINUA’ VASE FOR STEULER 223/12

  CARI ZALLONI was an Austrian designer who perhaps is best known as the creator and chief designer of Cazal Eyewear, the iconic eyewear brand.  He was born in Athens, Greece, in 1937 to a father of Greek-Italian descent and an Austrian mother.  She returned to Austria with her son upon her husband's death in 1947.  Zalloni's career began in 1960 after studying design at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna.  He initially worked with furniture in Siena, Italy, moving to Germany in 1962 to design decorative glassware and three very successful lines of pottery for STEULER:  'Zyklon', 'Facette', and 'Continua'.  Zalloni died in 2012 following complications from heart surgery. STEULER was founded by Georg Steuler in Höhr-Grenzhausen, a center of the ceramic industry in the Rhineland's Kannenbäckerland, in 1917.  (The Kannenbäckerland—the "potters' land"—is the site of the largest clay deposit in Europe.)  From 1948 until 1982 STEULER was run by Theo Homrich, who is generally responsibl