Eileen Gray, Designer

Eileen Gray, Designer
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Synopsis Eileen Gray, Designer by : J. Stewart Johnson

Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray
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Publisher : Irish Academic Press
Total Pages : 575
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ISBN-10 : 9780716533122
ISBN-13 : 071653312X
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Synopsis Eileen Gray by : Jennifer Goff

The renowned and highly influential architect, furniture-maker, interior designer and photographer Eileen Gray was born in Ireland and remained throughout her life an Irishwoman at heart. An elusive figure, her interior world has never before been observed as closely as in this ground-breaking study of her work, philosophy and inner circle of fellow artists. Jennifer Goff expertly blends art history and biography to create a stunning ensemble, offering a clear beacon of light into truly understanding Gray - the woman and the professional. Gray was a self-taught polymath and her work was multi-functional, user-friendly, ready for mass production yet succinctly unique, and her designs show great technical virtuosity. Her expertise in lacquer work and carpet design, often overlooked, is given due attention in this book, as is her fascinating relationship with the architect Le Corbusier and many other compelling and complex relationships. The book also offers rare insights into Gray s early years as an artist. The primary source material for this book is drawn from the Eileen Gray collection at the National Museum of Ireland and its wealth of documentation, correspondence, personal archives, photographs and oral history.

Eileen Gray: A House Under The Sun

Eileen Gray: A House Under The Sun
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Publisher : National Geographic Books
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ISBN-10 : 9781910620434
ISBN-13 : 1910620432
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Synopsis Eileen Gray: A House Under The Sun by : Charlotte Malterre-Barthes

Meet Eileen Gray, the female architect behind the world-renowned E-1027 house and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. In 1924, her work began in earnest on a small villa by the sea in the south of France. Nearly a century later, this structure is a design milestone. But like so many gifted female artists and designers of her time, Eileen Gray's story has been eclipsed by the men with whom she collaborated. Dzierżawska's exquisite visuals illuminate the previously overlooked struggles and triumphs of a young queer Irish designer whose work and life came to bloom during the 'Années Folles' of early 20th century Paris.

Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity

Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 228
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ISBN-10 : 9781351568562
ISBN-13 : 1351568566
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Synopsis Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity by : Jasmine Rault

The first book-length feminist analysis of Eileen Gray's work, Eileen Gray and the Design of Sapphic Modernity: Staying In argues that Gray's unusual architecture and design - as well as its history of abuse and neglect - emerged from her involvement with cultures of sapphic modernism. Bringing together a range of theoretical and historical sources, from architecture and design, communication and media, to gender and sexuality studies, Jasmine Rault shows that Gray shared with many of her female contemporaries a commitment to designing spaces for sexually dissident modernity. This volume examines Gray's early lacquer work and Romaine Brooks' earliest nude paintings; Gray's first built house, E.1027, in relation to Radclyffe Hall and her novel The Well of Loneliness; and Gray's private house, Tempe ?nbsp; Pailla, with Djuna Barnes' Nightwood. While both female sexual dissidence and modernist architecture were reduced to rigid identities through mass media, women such as Gray, Brooks, Hall and Barnes resisted the clarity of such identities with opaque, non-communicative aesthetics. Rault demonstrates that by defying the modern imperative to publicity, clarity and identity, Gray helped design a sapphic modernity that cultivated the dynamism of uncertain bodies and unfixed pleasures, which depended on staying in rather than coming out.

Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray
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Publisher : Schirmer Mosel
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 3829606923
ISBN-13 : 9783829606929
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Synopsis Eileen Gray by : Peter Adam

"Largely neglected for much of her career, Eileen Gray was rediscovered in the late 1960s. Today she is regarded as one of the most important designers and architects of the twentieth century"--Publisher's description.

Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray
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Publisher : Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
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ISBN-10 : 8434312654
ISBN-13 : 9788434312654
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Synopsis Eileen Gray by : Eileen Gray

Neglected for most of her career, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is now 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. Eileen Gray was to "stand alone" throughout her career, first as a lacquer artist, then a furniture designer, and finally as an architect. At a time when other leading designers were almost all male and mostly members of one movement or another -whether a loose grouping like De Stijl in the Netherlands or a formal one such as the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne-she remained staunchly independent. Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working, and Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on 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 icons of the International Style. SELLING POINTS: * In addition to an introductory essay, this book analyses the main designs of these key modern architects through sketches, drawings, photos of the original works, and shots of period settings * A full illustrated chronology of all the featured works completes each volume. Reflecting the series' focus on design, special attention has been paid to the layout and binding, making these books designer objects in their own right. 180 illustrations

Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray
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Publisher : Abrams
Total Pages : 408
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015058880140
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Synopsis Eileen Gray by : Peter Adam

Eileen Gray started her career as a lacquer artist in Paris creating new furniture and living accessories with striking colors and understated shapes. Her Bibendum chair and E-1027 table today are familiar icons across the world; the ship-shaped home she designed and built on a cliff near Monaco was hailed as a triumph of deluxe modern living; her Dragon chair fetched $28 million at a YSL sale. Her archives bombed during World War II, she was largely forgotten when one-time peers like Le Corbusier were lionized as visionaries. Rediscovered in 1960, she is today a celebrated pioneer of modern design.

Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray
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Publisher : Phaidon Press
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0714848441
ISBN-13 : 9780714848440
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Eileen Gray by : Caroline Constant

An in-depth study of the career of the highly original designer.

Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray
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Publisher : Lund Humphries Publishers Limited
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1848221835
ISBN-13 : 9781848221833
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Synopsis Eileen Gray by : Peter Adam

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The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 604
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ISBN-10 : 9781000387360
ISBN-13 : 1000387364
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Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture by : Anna Sokolina

The Routledge Companion to Women in Architecture illuminates the names of pioneering women who over time continue to foster, shape, and build cultural, spiritual, and physical environments in diverse regions around the globe. It uncovers the remarkable evolution of women’s leadership, professional perspectives, craftsmanship, and scholarship in architecture from the preindustrial age to the present. The book is organized chronologically in five parts, outlining the stages of women’s expanding engagement, leadership, and contributions to architecture through the centuries. It contains twenty-nine chapters written by thirty-three recognized scholars committed to probing broader topographies across time and place and presenting portraits of practicing architects, leaders, teachers, writers, critics, and other kinds of professionals in the built environment. The intertwined research sets out debates, questions, and projects around women in architecture, stimulates broader studies and discussions in emerging areas, and becomes a catalyst for academic programs and future publications on the subject. The novelty of this volume is in presenting not only a collection of case studies but in broadening the discipline by advancing an incisive overview of the topic as a whole. It is an invaluable resource for architectural historians, academics, students, and professionals.