Eileen Gray Table

Item Id: 374
price

$465.00 

item:
Eileen Gray Table
 
design:
Eileen Gray - 1927
 
description:
Eileen Gray designed small table with chrome-plated and polished steel tube frame, with glass top. Table is adjustable in height.
 
dimensions:
51cm Ø x 64/90cm h (20” Ø x 25.25/35.5” h)
 
notes:
Eileen Gray (1878-1976) spent the years of the First World War in London with Seizo Sugawara (or Sugawara-san), and on her return to Paris in 1919 she received her most ambitious decorative commission - the Rue de Lota apartment of Madame Mathieu Lèvy, known professionally as the model Suzanne Talbot. By 1922 Gray was in a position to open her own gallery, Jean Dèsert, in the Rue du Faubourg St.-Honorè Paris, to display and sell her furniture, lamps, mirrors and carpets, which she found economical to produce in small series of four and five Although her principal interest was still lacquer work, it was her carpets, woven in her Rue Visconti studio by apprentices supervised by Evelyn Wyld, which sold best. In 1923, Gray created an ambitious display for the Salon Des Artistes Decorators entitled a “Room-boudoir for Monte Carlo”. Although the French critics were unanimous in their contempt, her work received the acclaim of architects such as J.J.P. Oud and Walter Gropius, and she was encouraged to exhibit at the Salon D'Automne with Le Corbusier and Robert Mallet-Stevens. In 1924 she began to make architectural studies herself, and in 1927, in collaboration with lean Badovici, designed E-1027 at Roquebrune. Gray closed Jean Désert in 1930 to concentrate on architecture, and her subsequent architectural works include a Paris apartment for Badovici (1930-31), the Tempe a Pailla, Castellar (1932-34) and several other projects. The career of Eileen Cray represents a perfect illustration of the transition from the exotic, individual craftsman-made objects of the early l920s to the purposefully functional architecture and furniture of the Modern Movement.