Born Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray on August 1878 in Brownswood nearby Enniscorthy, west Ireland, Eileen Gray is a designer, architect and polish artist who pioneered the Modern design movement during the 20th century. Like her contemporaries Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier, Gray’s works for architecture and furnishings were amongst the earliest models of modern design and are considered to be among the finest of our time.
The youngest daughter of the well-to-do Scottish-Irish Gray family, Eileen Gray focused the esteemed Slade School of Fine Art in Bloomsbury, London in 1898., but moved then after to the Ecole Colarossi and the Academie Julian in Paris when her father died in 1900. Gray in the end returned to London in 1905, where during a visit to the Soho district she became rapt with lacquer-work. She eventually studied lacquerwork under the tutelage of Seizo Sugawara, a Japanese lacquer artist working for the Exposition Universelle in Paris. After which in 1913, Gray finished her very first exhibit presenting some of her attractive panels all throughout the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Eileen Gray started her career as a lacquer artist before branching out into furniture design and architecture. The buildings she made were noted for their extensive and narrow interior spaces and plenty levels for storage and viewing decks, a nod to her affection to ship architecture. In addition, Gray would also often design furnishings with the express reason of placing them inside the inner part of the buildings she designed and decorated. Some distinguished furniture designworks she made include the Bibendum Chair, the Biboquet Table, and the E-1027 Table Lamp.
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Regardless of of her accomplishments, Gray’s career went downhill after World War II when her houses and most of her possessions in France were destroyed by the retreating German Army. Eileen Gray stayed in France for the remainder of her life, finally regaining most of her position in the public eye after being recognized highly in design magazines. Shortly after a successful sale of her work was launched, Gray passed away on October 1976 in Rue Bonaparte, France.
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