Eileen Gray: Her Life and Her Work. the Ultimate Biography

by Peter Adam

Book Overview

Eileen Gray started her career as a lacquer artist in Paris creating new furniture and living accessories with striking colors and understated shapes. Remaining stalwartly independent, Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on geometric forms and industrially produced materials. 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3829606923
• ISBN13: 9783829606929
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Schirmer Mosel
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.8" x 9.1"