Eileen Gray / Cloé Pitiot and Nina Stritzler-Levine, editors ; Renaud Barrès, Catherine Bernard, Caroline Constant, Olivier Gabet, Philippe Garner, Jennifer Goff, Anne Jacquin, Frédéric Migayrou, Cloé Pitiot, Ruth Starr.

Format:

Book

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.

Standardized Title:

Eileen Gray (Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976--Exhibitions.

Gray, Eileen.

Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

503 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bard Graduate Center ; Paris : Centre Pompidou ; [Dublin] : National Museum of Ireland, [2020]

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.

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.

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.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780300251067

0300251068

OCLC:

1137183027