Eileen Gray
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Eileen Gray

Her Work and Her World

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eBook - ePub

Eileen Gray

Her Work and Her World

About this book

The renowned and highly influential architect, furniture-maker, interior designer and photographer Eileen Gray was born in Ireland and remained throughout her life an Irishwoman at heart. An elusive figure, her interior world has never before been observed as closely as in this ground-breaking study of her work, philosophy and inner circle of fellow artists.

Jennifer Goff expertly blends art history and biography to create a stunning ensemble, offering a clear beacon of light into truly understanding Gray - the woman and the professional. Gray was a self-taught polymath and her work was multi-functional, user-friendly, ready for mass production yet succinctly unique, and her designs show great technical virtuosity. Her expertise in lacquer work and carpet design, often overlooked, is given due attention in this book, as is her fascinating relationship with the architect Le Corbusier and many other compelling and complex relationships. The book also offers rare insights into Gray s early years as an artist.

The primary source material for this book is drawn from the Eileen Gray collection at the National Museum of Ireland and its wealth of documentation, correspondence, personal archives, photographs and oral history.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. ONE From Ireland to Paris
  9. TWO A Moveable Feast: Stephen Haweis, Students and Paris
  10. THREE The Artist: Painting, Sculpture, Photography
  11. FOUR The Realm of Lacquer
  12. FIVE Knotting and Weaving: Eileen Gray’s Carpet Design
  13. SIX Engaging the Senses: Eileen Gray and Furniture
  14. SEVEN ‘A House is not a Machine’: Eileen Gray’s Domestic Architecture
  15. EIGHT Stories from Dominica and Beyond: Gray, Haweis and the Collage at E.1027
  16. NINE A Tale of Two Houses: Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier
  17. TEN For the People: Social and Cultural Architecture
  18. ELEVEN A Kindred Spirit: The Prunella Clough Letters
  19. TWELVE Longing for Home: Ireland and Her Later Years
  20. List of Illustrations
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index