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View of the false ceiling and storage system at the rue Châteaubriand apartment

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Description: View of the false ceiling and storage system at the rue Châteaubriand...

TitleView of the false ceiling and storage system at the rue Châteaubriand apartment

Creator nameGray, Eileen

Creator nationality/cultureIrish

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1929–1931

Object typeArchitecture

MaterialsUnknown

LocationParis

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsArchitecture, Modern--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)Apartment houses--FranceWomen designersCeilings

Statusgelatin silver print in Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Paris

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10. A New Approach to Modern Architecture: At the Border of Space and Time

Description: Eileen Gray

In 1968, when Joseph Rykwert wrote the article “Un omaggio a Eileen Gray, Pioniera del design”in Domus, he essentially rediscovered Eileen Gray, who had been largely forgotten as an architect since the late 1940s. Gray had been acclaimed as an innovative furn iture designer since before 1910, receiving international recognition for her work in...

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

PublisherBard Graduate Center

Copyright© 2020 Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture

Related print edition pages: pp.166-180

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Chapter subject tags:Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976Architecture, Modern--20th centuryModern movement (Architecture)E.1027 (Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France)Fourth dimensionWomen architects--20th century

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