Eileen Gray
Photographed by Bernice Abbott
Paris
1926
I'm not sure why I haven't posted about
Eileen Gray before.
I've been a big fan forever.
Maybe it's because I am
"light in the library"
when it comes to her?
Anyhoo,
I dug out this little gem of
a monograph from 1986:
by Peter Adam.
The reproductions aren't great,
but this is a start,
and look for more on
the modernist pioneer soon...
Eileen Grey
Furniture models in glass and paper
1925
Eileen Grey
Paris
c. 1900
Eileen Grey flying
1913
Eileen Grey
c. 1913
Eileen Grey
Room for Madame Mathieu-Lévy
1923
Eileen Grey
Photograph from 'L'Illustration"
1933
Room by Paul Ruaud, furniture by Eileen
aka
"Damia"
c. 1920s
Famous Parisian singer and performer
Eileen Grey's lover from 1922-28
Eileen Grey
Rug designs
c. 1920
Eileen Grey
Rug design
c. 1920
Eileen Grey
Rug designs
c. 1920s - 30s
Eileen Grey
Lamp designs
c. 1930s
Eileen Grey
Chest of drawers
c. 1919-22
Eileen Grey
Architect's Cabinet
c. 1920s
Eileen Grey
Living room of
Eileen's home near Monaco
c. 1929
Eileen Grey
Stools for "E.1027"
1925
My friends Michael and Gabby have one of these,
the actual one, the one on the left.
Eileen always made each design a little differently,
no two custom pieces were ever exactly the same....
c. 1929
Eileen Grey
Custom chair for car designer
Jean-Henri Labourdette
c. 1920s
Eileen Grey
"'Nonconformist" chair
c. 1930s
Eileen Grey
Eileen's carpenter demonstrating
a convertible chromed steel chair.
c. 1930s
Le Corbusier fresco at "E.1027"
c. 1930s
Eileen Grey
In her salon in Paris circa 1976,
she would have been 98.
Only just found your blog, wonderful stuff! Great to see so much of Eileen Grey's work,have you come across anything designed or painted by another of her lovers, Elizabeth Eyre de Lanux? I'm trying to write about her, but there's very little of her work visible anywhere.
ReplyDeleteI haven't, but if I do I will let you know.....
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