BEGINNINGS

Pitiot, Cloé; Stritzler-Levine, Nina

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BEGINNINGS

Cloé Pitiot (Editor), Nina Stritzler-Levine (Editor)

Eileen Gray

Beginnings

Author

Cloé Pitiot (Editor), Nina Stritzler-Levine (Editor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100139

BEGINNINGS

1
Crossing Borders
Cloé Pitiot

Critical Encounters
Marine Bry

2
The Imagist
Frédéric Migayrou

3
Life in Ireland
Jennifer Goff

4
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl: A British Heritage
Olivier Gabet

5
Edwardian London: A City in Flux, or Learning from Syncretism
Catherine Bernard

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BOOKEileen Gray

Cloé Pitiot (Editor), Nina Stritzler-Levine (Editor)

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100132

Eileen Gray (1878–1976) was a versatile designer and architect who navigated numerous literary and artistic circles over the course of her life. This volume chronicles Gray’s career as a designer, architect, painter, and photographer. The book’s essays, featuring copious new research, offer in-depth analysis of more than 50 individual designs and architectural projects, accompanied by both period and new photographs.

Born in Ireland and educated in London, Gray proceeded to Paris where she opened a textile studio, studied the Japanese craft of lacquer that would become a primary technique in her design work, and owned and directed the influential gallery and store known as “Jean Désert.” Gray struggled for acceptance as a largely self-taught woman in male-dominated professions. Although she is now best known for her furniture, lighting, and carpets, she dedicated herself to many architectural and interior projects that were both personal and socially driven, including the Villa E 1027, the iconic modern house designed with Jean Badovici, as well as economical and demountable projects, such as the Camping Tent.

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Author

Cloé Pitiot (Editor), Nina Stritzler-Levine (Editor)

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Print publication date June 2020 (in print)

Print ISBN 9780300251067

EISBN 9780300279825

Illustrations 597

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