Before she became one of the most significant figures of modernism eileen gray designed furniture in art deco style.
Art deco eileen gray furniture.
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Art deco eileen gray furniture.
At the beginning of the 20th century gray showed a major interest in japanese lacquerware and so began working with.
Working with geometric forms eileen gray created plush furniture designs in steel and leather.
In paris she studied to become the first western practitioner of japanese lacquer.
One of her last tasks was to work with zeev aram on the introduction of her designs onto the world market.
9 august 1878 31 october 1976 was an anglo irish architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of the modern movement in architecture.
Eileen gray 1878 1956 art deco furniture design.
The irish born designer spent most of her life in paris where some of her most iconic designs were created.
Aged 20 she enrolled at the slade school of art in london.
Initially she was known for her work in the art deco style but by the mid 1920s under the influence of le corbusier.
Today s artists too write extensively about gray s influence.
After the war and up to her death in 1976 eileen gray continued to work as a designer on both major projects like the cultural and social centre which occupied her from 1946 1949 and on a number of smaller furniture designs.
Over her career she was associated with many notable european artists of her era including kathleen scott adrienne gorska le corbusier and jean badovici with whom she was romantically involved.
Her work inspired both modernism and art deco.
If cassandre gave the jazz age its distinctive graphic style then it was a woman an architect and a designer who gave the decade its most memorable piece of furniture still in production today.
Eileen gray born kathleen eileen moray smith.
Eileen gray eileen gray 1878 1976 art deco artist and designer.
Neglected for most of her career eileen gray is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early 20th century and the most influential woman in those fields.
Gray moved to paris in 1902 where she was to spend most of her life.
Eileen gray was born into an aristocratic irish family.
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Designer artist and architect eileen gray was one of the most fascinating creative figures of the 20th century.
