Anglo-Japanese Smallhythe Folding Table

Toward the end of her life people who knew Eileen Gray described her natural elegance, which can be traced, in part, to her aristocratic upbringing in the Irish county of Wexford. She was a descendant, through her mother, of the Earl of Moray—a noble lineage sullied only by her mother’s marriage to James MacLaren Smith, a mediocre painter. Even if...