Eileen Gray

Websites
http://www.eileengray.co.uk
http://www.dwr.com/designer-eileen-gray?lang=en_US
http://designmuseum.org/designers/eileen-gray
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/e/eileen-gray/
https://www.wmagazine.com/story/eileen-gray

Basic Info
-Born in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland in 1878,
- The youngest of five children in a wealthy Scottish-Irish family
- spent her childhood traveling between London and Ireland
-Among the first women to be admitted to the Slade
where she took up painting in 1898 before undergoing an apprenticeship in a London
lacquer workshop.
-Moved to Paris in 1902
established herself as one of the leading designers of the lacquered screens and
decorative panels
- In 1922 she opened her own gallery, Jean Dsert, in Rue du Fauborg Saint Honor as an
outlet for her designs.
-Most celebrated of which was that completed in 1922 for the famous modiste, Madame
Mathieu-Lvy (better known as Suzanne Talbot)
-she designed two houses in the Alpes Maritimes, one at Roquebrune which was built from
1926-1929, and the other at Castellar, built from 1932-1934. Both houses are
considered to be among the purest examples of domestic architecture and interior
design of the period.
-The Royal Society of Arts appointed her a Royal Designer for Industry in 1972
-Eileen Gray died in Paris in 1976 at 98

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Eileen Gray's designs are now as familiar as designs from the other important
early 20th Century architects and designers such as Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe,
Marcel Breuer et al
Zeev Aram, Chairman, Aram Designs Ltd

suited to our existence, in proportion to our rooms and in accordance with our
aspirations and feelings.

To create, one must first question everything.