Eileen Gray

Format:: Book
Language:: English
Imprint:: New York : Bard Graduate Center ; Paris : Centre Pompidou ; [Dublin] : National Museum of Ireland, [2020]
Subject:: Gray, Eileen, - 1878-1976 - Exhibitions
Women architects - Exhibitions
Women designers - Exhibitions
Furniture design - Exhibitions
Architects - Exhibitions
Designers - Exhibitions
Contributor:: Pitiot, Cloé, editor
Stritzler-Levine, Nina, editor
Barrès, Renaud. contributor
Bernard, Catherine, contributor
Constant, Caroline, contributor
Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture, organizer, host institution
Centre Georges Pompidou, organizer, issuing body
ISBN:: 9780300251067 and 0300251068
Description:: 503 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Notes:: "This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Eileen Gray held at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery from February 29 through July 12, 2020"--Colophon
Bibliographic Note:: Includes bibliographical references
Contents:: Director's foreword / Susan Weber -- Foreword / Serge Lasvignes and Bernard Blisténe -- Introduction and acknowledgments / Cloé Pitiot -- Gallery director's commentary: intersectionality / Nina Stritzler-Levine -- Chronology / Jennifer Laurent and Marine Bry -- Beginnings -- Crossing borders / Cloé Pitiot -- Critical encounters / Marine Bry -- The imagist / Frédéric Migayrou -- Life in Ireland / Jennifer Goff -- Portrait of the artist as a young girl: a British heritage / Olivier Gabet -- Edwardian London: a city in flux, or learning from syncretism / Catherine Bernard -- Being a designer -- From the second to the fourth dimension: furniture in perpetual motion / Cloé Pitiot -- The lacquer studio / Ruth Starr -- Making lacquer / Anne Jacquin -- Rug design / Jennifer Goff -- Being an architect -- A new approach to modern architecture: at the border of space and time / Cloé Pitiot -- E 1027 Maison en bord de mer, 1926-2999 / Renaud Barrés -- Tempe a Pailla and Lou Pérou: the architectural 'soul' of Eileen Gray / Caroline Constant -- Tempe a Pailla: working independently / Jennifer Goff and Caroline Constant -- Social and cultural forays: architecture as 'sssuggestive action' / Caroline Constant -- Case studies: decorative arts and design / Renaud Barrès, Philippe Garner, Cloé Pitiot -- Case studies: architecture / Renaud Barrès, Caroline Constant, Jennifer Goff -- Checklist of the exhibition -- Historiography / Cloè Pitiot -- Bibliography
Summary:: "Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was a versatile designer and architect who navigated numerous literary and artistic circles over the course of her life. This handsome volume chronicles Gray's career as a designer, architect, painter, and photographer. The book's essays, featuring copious new research, offer in-depth analysis of more than 50 individual designs and architectural projects, accompanied by both period and new photographs. Born in Ireland and educated in London, Gray proceeded to Paris where she opened a textile studio, studied the Japanese craft of lacquer that would become a primary technique in her design work, and owned and directed the influential gallery and store known as "Jean Désert." Gray struggled for acceptance as a largely self-taught woman in male-dominated professions. Although she is now best known for her furniture, lighting, and carpets, she dedicated herself to many architectural and interior projects that were both personal and socially driven, including the Villa E 1027, the iconic modern house designed with Jean Badovici, as well as economical and demountable projects, such as the Camping Tent"-- Provided by publisher
Collection:: BGC Course Reserves
Call Number:: NK1535.G68 A4 2020
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Course Name:: 548. Women Designers in the USA, 1900–Present: Diversity and Difference. BGC Spring 2023
Instructor:: Whalen, C.