
Eileen Gray
Her Life and Work
Peter Adam(Author)
Thames & Hudson Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 15. June 2009
Book
Hardback
360 pages
978-0-500-51480-1 (ISBN)
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Description
Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early 20th century and the most influential woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco. Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working, and Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by the International Style designers, such as Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Mies Van Der Rohe, who shared many of her ideals. Her voluptuous leather and tubular steel Bibendum Chair, and clinically chic E-1027 glass and tubular steel table are now as familiar as icons of the International Style as Le Corbusier and Perriand's classic Grand Confort club chairs, yet for most of her career she was relegated to obscurity by the same proud singularity that makes her work so prized today. This stunningly illustrated volume is set to be the definitive biography and survey of her eventful life and groundbreaking career.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
With 427 illustrations, 153 in colour and duotone
Dimensions
Height: 288 mm
Width: 250 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-500-51480-1 (9780500514801)
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Person
Peter Adam (1929-2019) was a filmmaker and author. He had been made an Officier des Arts et des Lettres
by the French Government. Among his many books are Eisenstadt by Eisenstadt, Art in the Third Reich and Kertesz by Kertesz.
by the French Government. Among his many books are Eisenstadt by Eisenstadt, Art in the Third Reich and Kertesz by Kertesz.