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Description: Divan, in the apartment of Juliette Lévy, 9 rue de Lota, Paris

TitleDivan, in the apartment of Juliette Lévy, 9 rue de Lota, Paris

Creator nameGray, Eileen

Creator nationality/cultureIrish

Creator roleDesigner

Creation datec. 1923

Object typeFurniture

MaterialsLacquered wood, cloth

LocationPrivate collection

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsFurniture design--History--20th centuryModernism (Art)Women designersSeating (Furniture)Middle Eastern influences

Statusphoto in National Museum of Ireland, NMIEG, 2000.254; from Jean Badovici, “L’art d’Eileen Gray,” Eileen Gray: Meubelen en interieurs. Special issue of Wendingen 6, no. 6 (June 1924): 11

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Case Studies: Decorative Arts and Design

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

Eileen Gray

Case Studies: Decorative Arts and Design

Author

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

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.247-365

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Chapter subject tags:Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976Furniture design--History--20th centuryTextile design, AbstractModernism (Art)Women designers--20th centuryDecorative arts--France--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)Lacquer and lacquering

9. Rug Design

Jennifer Goff

Eileen Gray

In Paris during the first decade of the twentieth century, Fauvism, Cubism, Constructivism, and Futurism, coupled with a rejection of academic tradition, caused artists and designers to question traditional...

Author

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

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.142-161

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100150&redirecttoanchor=202328

Chapter subject tags:Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976Textile design, AbstractModernism (Art)Women designers--20th centuryModernism (Aesthetics)RugsWyld, Evelyn, 1882-1973

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