A brief introduction to Eileen Gray

With each passing year Eileen Gray becomes more important in defining the history of modernism. She designed furniture, buildings, carpets, and lighting that continue to find their way into production decades after her death. Here is a brief introduction to het work.

[followyourgypsyheart]

So lovely to see this. My son purchased the E table in the chrome version (60s). Came up in an estate sale. Nice presentation.

[theresalasalle]

Excellent Thanks so much Matthew! I haven't any talent in such things....but so appreciative of them. Thanks for all of this!

[DavidMichiels]

I absolutely love your presentations. I hope there will be more of them in the future!

[jayerjavec]

Glad to see another fine presentation. Thanks for sharing.

[mrreeves]

Another fascinating story about a true designer that nobody really knew about, Legend !

[mnyshp]

I just love her pieces! Light but also robust, beautifully modern and functional.

[lillalillalillalilla]

Great presentation, helped me a lot to prepare for my design history class! Eileen Gray was such a wonderful designer!

[alexmckenna]

Can't wait till I turn into a bad-ass old lady like her.

[Raphael-toeg]

14:25 Le Corbusier died in 1965 not 1957

[eileenoneill]

Very proud of this amazing Irish woman.

[jaamaapii]

This is perfect. I have to write a paper about her and I like to get a summery of me subject before starting my own research. Just for a quick overview. This one was just the right amount of info to get me interested in her, while giving me the needed information to understand my research better.
Thank you ^^

[amandabenstead]

Thank you so much for this. Brilliant. Inspiring. Generous.

[kidmohair]

10:08 I don't understand breakfast in bed...it's overrated

[leetran]

I know about Eileen Gray from an LSAT RC stimulus

[stevendornbusch]

Inclusion by Le Corbusier (or Pierre Jeanneret) in their 1925 Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau utopian model home of an 1840 Thonet chair is entirely "modern", IF modernism is a choice beyond latest fashion --Art Moderne / Art Deco enthusiasm, taking Paris. The Thonet choice shows sobriety, not functional negligence. Far more honestly than those twice-altered somewhat fictional grain silos in Corbusier's "Towards an Architecture". Would we say the same regarding the work and critical interventions of Charlotte Perriand? These choices aren't (Rietrveld's) Zig-Zag seating discourse, either. Like the leather club chairs, this low back Thonet model is useful and (but more easily) movable. Nearly perfect, not unlike vernacular examples. Thonet Industrial production continues to this day.
15:58 Those aren't 4 identical pieces, but 2 different pairs (Count the slats) with an identical S-bend in all 4. 
GREAT point regarding WHY Ms Gray's e1027 masterpiece survived the 20th Century --patriarchal misattribution to Corbusier. As you explain, no oversight. Along the long aspect, facing the water, those integrated canvas parts eschew "masculine" monumentality. Her choices even speak to impermanence, vulnerability & survival, above notions of Great Builders immortality. Vanity notwithstanding, no structure survives without significant maintenance. E1027: A laboratory for luxurious simple living.
Eileen Gray is finally getting her due.

[chantal]

Where did you get your references and analysis of the comparison between Corbusier's Esprit Nouveau and E1027. Specifically how E1027 pushed the Le Corbusier's own ideas more strongly through a more powerful use of his principles on the interior of her design. Was this just your own opinion?

[lenalynam]

Great presentation, thank you. I am doing research on the non confromist chair. Do you know if Breuer was influenced by this chair for his Wassily or vice versa?

[eckosters]

Thank you! I didn't know about her, just read an article about her in the NY Review of books and decided to look her up. What a wonderful introduction is this presentation. Now I must watch those movies and learn more about her furniture, which is so appealing!

[TT-kyql]

Thank you for the video this is amazing

[hildamcevoy]

Such a lovely, cohesive presentation. Thank you