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EILEEN GRAY - PETER ADAM GEBUNDEN

One of the most important designers and architects of the 20th century  Eileen Gray (1878-1976)
wielded enormous influence - though often unacknowledged  especially in her lifetime - in a
field largely dominated by men. Today  her original furniture sells for dizzying sums and her
iconic designs  including the luxurious Bibendum chair and the refined yet functional E.1027
table  are renowned throughout the world. Resolutely independent and frequently
underappreciated  Gray evolved from a creator of opulent lacquer furniture into a pioneer of
the modernist principle of form following function. Remaining separate from major schools or
movements such as Bauhaus and De Stijl  she developed her own distinctive take on the forms and
materials favoured by fellow International Style designers such as Le Corbusier  Charlotte
Perriand and Mies van der Rohe. This definitive new edition of the biography by Peter Adam  the
only surviving person to have been close to Gray during her reclusive later years  is a
uniquely intimate survey of her life and work. Comprehensively updated and illustrated with
material drawn from Gray's personal archives - correspondence  journals  photographs and
architectural sketchbooks - it tells the full story of her life from aristocratic beginnings in
Ireland  through the extravagance of Art Deco-era Paris  relationships with lovers  male and
female  and her productive years in southern France. It reveals fresh details about her elegant
largely overlooked paintings  tense exchanges with Le Corbusier  and the fate of E.1027  the
home that she designed and furnished herself  and which set a new standard for radically
modernist living.

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