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

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

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Renaud Barrès
Renaud Barrès is an architect and historian of contemporary architecture. He received his graduate degree in architecture in 1998, focusing on the restoration of 20th-century architectural works and the house E 1027 designed by Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici. He supervised work at E 1027 from 1999 to 2004 and was responsible for carrying out an archaeological and architectural inventory of the house before restoration began. Barrès is currently working on a thesis about E 1027 under the direction of Gérard Monnier at the Sorbonne. While researching the building in 2007, Barrès discovered the personal archives of Jean Badovici, which give new insight into the history of the house. He has sought all of the surviving E 1027 furniture in public and private collections in Europe and the United States, and has produced a critical study of Eileen Gray’s achievements in furnishing the house.

In 2013, Barrès was invited by the Centre Pompidou to present on E 1027 in a symposium in conjunction with the exhibition Eileen Gray. In 2016, Cap Moderne, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the restoration of E 1027, selected Renaud Barrès and the architecture scholar Burkhardt Rukschcio as scientific and historical experts to reconstruct all the furniture and equipment for the house and to provide guidance in the restoration of the house to its original 1929 condition. This long and detailed process will be completed in May 2020. In 2017, Renaud Barrès, working with Cloé Pitiot and Tim Benton, co-curated the exhibition Eileen Gray: Une Architecture de l’Intime / Intimate Architecture at Roquebrune-Cap-Moderne. He now serves as director of the Council for Architecture, Urbanism, and Environment in the department of Hérault.

Catherine Bernard
Catherine Bernard is professor of English literature and art history at the University of Paris. Her research focuses on the history of aesthetics, as well as on the politics of form from the modernist period to the present day. She is the author of critical editions and translations into French of Virginia Woolf’s novel Flush (Paris: Gallimard, 2012) and a selection of Woolf’s essays (Paris: Gallimard, 2015). Professor Bernard has also published on the Bloomsbury Group, specifically the Omega Workshops and Roger Fry’s Modernism.

Marine Bry
Marine Bry is a researcher in art history specializing in the decorative arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work currently focuses on the creation and distribution of children’s bedroom furniture in France from the 1890s to the Second World War, a study that combines social history, the arts, and pedagogy. She also served as a curatorial assistant for the exhibition Couples Modernes at the Centre Pompidou Metz in 2018, and since February 2019 she has been the project director of the Fine Arts Division of the Art Faber Collective and head of the Centre de Documentation du Lab. Industries & Cultures at the University of Paris 2.

Caroline Constant
Caroline Constant is Professor Emerita of Architecture at the University of Michigan and a visiting scholar at both the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She is author of The Modern Architectural Landscape (2012), Eileen Gray (2000), The Woodland Cemetery: Toward a Spiritual Landscape (1994), and The Palladio Guide (1985), and co-editor with Wilfried Wang of the exhibition catalogue Eileen Gray: An Architecture for All Senses (1996). She is currently working on a book tentatively titled Cambridge Modern Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 1930–1970, in which she explores the disciplinary contributions of educators and professionals associated with Harvard, MIT, and the Cambridge School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture for Women.

Olivier Gabet
Olivier Gabet is a French art historian and a curator. He started his career at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris in 2002. In 2005, he joined the Musée d’Orsay, where he was the curator in charge of decorative arts and was also responsible for the contemporary art program “Correspondances,” working with many living French and international artists. From late 2007 to July 2013, he was part of the team in charge of Louvre Abu Dhabi, first as curator for decorative arts and then as deputy curatorial director. In 2013, at the age of 37, Olivier Gabet became director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, which houses national collections of design and fashion. Since then, he has been curator of several exhibitions, including Fornasetti and Korea Now! (2015), L’Esprit du Bauhaus (2016), and Christian Dior, couturier du rêve (2017).

Philippe Garner
Philippe Garner entered the art auction world in 1970, after graduating with degrees in French and Latin from Bedford College, University of London. Since 1971, he has worked as a specialist in the decorative arts of the late 19th and 20th centuries and in the history of photography, first at Sotheby’s and since 2004 at Christie’s, where he became International Director in these fields. In 2016, he retired as a Deputy Chairman of Christie’s and continues to work as an International Consultant for the firm. Major auctions include the Estate of Eileen Gray (1980), Modernist Furniture from the Palace of the Maharaja of Indore (1980), and the collection of Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Bergé (2009). His publications include Cecil Beaton (1994, with David Alan Mellor), John Cowan: Through the Light Barrier (1999), Antonioni’s Blow-Up (2010, with David Alan Mellor), and essays for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Georges Pompidou, and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Jennifer Goff
Jennifer Goff is Curator of the Eileen Gray, Furniture, and Musical instruments collections in the National Museum of Ireland’s Decorative Art and History Division. She was a Fulbright Scholar in 2016–17, when she completed a dual affiliation as a research scholar with Columbia University in New York and as the first Irish Fulbright scholar lecturing at the New York School of Interior Design. She is the author of many publications and wrote the chapter “Eileen Gray et Ses Tapis” for the Centre Pompidou exhibition catalogue Eileen Gray in 2013.

Dr. Goff contributed to the documentary Eileen Gray: Invitation to a Voyage, co–produced by RTÉ Television and directed by Jörg Bundschuh of Kick Film. The documentary won the prestigious FIFA (International Festival of Films on Art) Award for Best Portrait Documentary in 2008 and was originally broadcast as part of the RTÉ Arts Lives series. In 2014, she worked with director Marco Orsini and producer Mary McGuckian on the documentary Gray Matters, which focuses on Eileen Gray’s life and work. The documentary launched the New York Architectural Tribeca Film Festival in 2014. In April 2019, she contributed to RTÉ Television’s Nationwide cultural program on Eileen Gray and in 2015 to the landmark four-part television documentary series Designing Ireland on Irish design and architecture.

Anne Jacquin
Anne Jacquin is a restauratice du patrimoine (heritage conservator) who graduated from the furniture section of the Institut National du Patrimoine (INP) in 2001. She is a pioneer in France in the field of lacquer conservation and restoration. She completed her training in Japan and has since devoted her entire professional life to the study, conservation, and restoration of Asian and European lacquer objects. Extensive experience in this field has enabled her to work with many French museums and major international collectors on a wide variety of works that posed complex issues.

Jennifer Laurent

Jennifer Laurent is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Decorative Arts at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. A specialist in French Art Deco, she has worked in the 20th-Century Decorative Art and Design Department at Christie’s Paris and in the design department of the Musée National d’Art Moderne–Centre Pompidou, where she collaborated on the exhibition Eileen Gray in 2013. Laurent holds master’s degrees in art history and museum studies from Paris-Sorbonne University.

Frédéric Migayrou
Frédéric Migayrou is Deputy Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and is Chair and Bartlett Professor of Architecture at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL). He was a full professor of art history at the École des Beaux-Arts de Saint Etienne, France, and an advisor for the French Ministry of Culture before his appointment at the Centre Pompidou in 2000. As an art and architecture historian, he developed numerous programs and curated many exhibitions. He has conducted research about the modern movement in art and architecture history, publishing a book on Robert Mallet Stevens in 2005, and curated exhibitions on Pol Abraham (2008), De Stijl (2011), Le Corbusier (2015), and the Union des Artistes Modernes, U.A.M (2018). He was a con-tributor to a special issue of Cahiers d’Art dedicated to the work of Sigfried Gideon (2015).

Cloé Pitiot
Cloé Pitiot has been the curator in charge of the modern and contemporary collections at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris since 2018. She is a certified architect (DPLG) and holds a PhD in the history of contemporary architecture. Pitiot taught about color in design schools for several years before teaching the history of decorative arts and art objects at the University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. From 2010 to 2018, she was design curator at the National Museum of Modern Art–Centre Georges Pompidou, where she initiated and took part in the creation of a Fab Lab in Benin in 2012. In 2013, she curated the exhibitions Eileen Gray at the Centre Pompidou and Eileen Gray, architect, designer, painter at the Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin. In 2016, she was curator of Pierre Paulin at the Centre Pompidou and in 2018 of Couples Modernes at the Centre Pompidou Metz and Modern Couples at the Barbican Center with Emma Lavigne, Jane Allison, and Elia Biezunski.

Ruth Starr
Ruth Starr is an art historian at Trinity College Dublin, lecturing in the history of Japanese art and architecture from prehistory to to the 20th century. Her current research seeks to untangle the web of connections linking Japanese art and European art by tracing the common thread of lacquerware. She is investigating how these links were manifested in Ireland during the late nineteenth century Japonisme movement, particularly the Japanese influence on Eileen Gray. At Centre Pompidou, Paris, she was the principal consultant on Gray’s lacquer master Seizo Sugawara for the 2013 exhibition Eileen Gray. For Trinity College, Starr developed a non-Western art course, in which she focuses on the arts of Japan. She has taught in Matsue, Japan, and has been a guest lecturer at major cultural institutions in Dublin, including the National Museum of Ireland, the Chester Beatty Library, and the Gallery of Oriental Art at the National College of Art and Design.

Nina Stritzler-Levine
Former Director of Bard Graduate Center Gallery where she also served as Director Curatorial Affairs and Head of Gallery Publications, Nina Stritzler-Levine works in the fields of modern and contemporary architecture and design, and curatorial theory and practice with a particular focus on alternative modernisms, gender, class and sexuality and the intersections of architecture and contemporary art. She was recently appointed Professor, Curatorial Practice and Director Focus Project Exhibitions at the Bard Graduate Center. Many of her exhibitions and publications have received critical acclaim including Eileen Gray, Artek and the Aaltos, and Sheila Hicks: Weaving as Metaphor. She was also co-director of the groundbreaking project Waterweavers: The River in Colombian Art, Craft and Design that questioned conventional art classifications and was curator of the exhibition Steven Holl: Making Architecture organized by the Dorsky Museum.

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