‘ZYKLON’ VASE BY CARI ZALLONI FOR STEULER Nr. 195/30

Here's a fine specimen from Cari Zalloni's shapely and colorful 'Zyklon' line of 1968 for STEULER KERAMIK.  'Zyklon' vases are typically rectangular in form (although other shapes do exist) with raised offset concentric rings or 'ripples' that exceed the flat planes of the vase.  They are always covered in smooth, glossy glazes, in a range of bright solid or tone-on-tone colors including metallics. 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',