Eileen Gray (1879-1976)

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  EILEEN GRAY (1878-1976)

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  EILEEN GRAY (1878-1976)

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  EILEEN GRAY (1878-1976)

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  EILEEN GRAY (1878-1976)

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Eileen Gray Biography

(b Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford, 9 Aug 1879; d Paris, 28 Nov 1976). Irish furniture designer and architect, active in France. In 1898 she entered the Slade School of Art, London, with additional instruction in oriental lacquer technique in D. Charles’s shop in Soho. She moved to Paris in 1902, where she continued her training with the Japanese lacquer master Seizo Sugawara. Her first lacquered furniture, including decorative panels, folding screens, small tables and other large pieces, appeared in 1910 and reflected a unique stylistic pastiche of Far Eastern and French influences. At the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in 1913 her pioneering modern furniture designs attracted the attention of Jacques Doucet. He commissioned three pièces uniques , two chairs and the lacquered screen Le Destin (1914). The screen, with Symbolist-inspired figures on one side and a starkly abstract design on a red-lacquered ground on the other, places Gray among the earliest 20th-century designers using geometric abstraction. She designed a theatrical interior in 1919 for the Paris milliner Suzanne Talbot, which, despite its African-inspired boat-shaped chaise longue and draped animal skins, revealed a greater tendency towards architectural shapes.

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