A trained artist and passionate lacquer craftswoman, Irish designer Eileen Gray created sought-after interiors for the Parisian elite and opened her own shop on the Faubourg Saint-Honoré, where her customers included James Joyce and Elsa Schiaparelli.
It’s an unfortunate situation that the founders of New York-based design firm Egg Collective are keen to rectify, with their new exhibition ‘Designing Women IV: Eileen Gray’s House for Two Sculptors’ duringShocked to see how ‘disrupted by war and stymied by sexism, the breadth, beauty and sheer originality of Gray’s work was nearly lost to history’, Egg Collective’s Stephanie Beamer, Crystal Ellis and Hillary Petrie realised that only three buildings out of the 50 works of architecture designed...
Beamer, Ellis and Petrie were keen to explore Gray’s fascinating career – spanning the estates of Ireland’s County Wexford, bohemian Edwardian England, and Paris’ art deco 1920s – as well as her design philosophy, noting that for Gray, a home was not a functionalist machine but a place for living. ‘In fact, one of her most iconic products – an adjustable height chrome and glass side table – was designed for eating toast in bed without getting crumbs on the sheets,’ they say.
Inspired by Gray’s aesthetic and how the house was designed as a staging area for sculptural works, the exhibition comprises a series of vignettes showcasing the work of two contemporary sculptors, Taylor Kibby and Molly Haynes, as well a curated selection of designs by Egg Collective – including the new ‘Eileen’ mirror, inspired by the patterns found in Gray’s geometric textile designs.
‘Designing Women IV: Eileen Gray’s House for Two Sculptures’ is at Egg Collective Showroom, 151 Hudson Street, New York duringLéa Teuscher is a Sub-Editor at Wallpaper*. A former travel writer and production editor, she joined the magazine over a decade ago, and has been sprucing up copy and attempting to write clever headlines ever since. Having spent her childhood hopping between continents and cultures, she’s a fan of all things travel, art and architecture.
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