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Description: Seizo Sugawara in Eileen Gray’s studio at 11, rue Guénégaud, Paris

TitleSeizo Sugawara in Eileen Gray’s studio at 11, rue Guénégaud, Paris

Creator nameGray, Eileen

Creator nationality/cultureIrish

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation dateUnknown

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsUnknown

LocationNational Museum of Ireland, Dublin

Accession numberNMIEG 2003.551

SubjectsPortrait photographyWomen designersArtists' studiosLacquer and lacquering

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7. The Lacquer Studio

Ruth Starr

Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray is best known today for her pioneering work in modern design and architecture. There has been less scholarly attention given to her earlier career as an acclaimed lacquer furniture designer or to her appreciation of the unique characteristics of Japanese lacquer. Equally unacknowledged...

Author

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

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.122-127

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100148&redirecttoanchor=202092

Chapter subject tags:Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976Lacquer and lacqueringWomen designers--20th centurySugawara, Seizō, 1884-1937Decorative arts--Japanese influencesSōtatsu-Kōrin School

Critical Encounters

Marine Bry

Eileen Gray

Jacques Doucet (1853–1929) fig. 20 Couturier and art collector Jacques Doucet sees Eileen Gray’s first lacquer works at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in 1913. He visits her...

Author

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

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Related print edition pages: pp.50-59

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-100141&redirecttoanchor=202092

Chapter subject tags:Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976Women designers--20th centuryModernism (Art)--France

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