Taschen Paris

What is she famous?

His E-1027 seaside villa near Monaco, where she built with her partner at the time, Roman architect and writer, Jean Badovac. His E10027 glass and adjustable steel table was designed for his sister who loved eating breakfast in bed, and demonstrates the commitment of Gray practicality. Aram has claimed the rights of its licensed merchandise, but you can read about his dynasty design with this Eileen Gray Taschen book store in the RIBA, which pays tribute to his work.

What will I recognize?

The Bibendum Chair to the SCP at its-like sausage rolls, based on the work of Marcel Breuer's tubular steel. His original work has soared in value since his death in 1976, because the parts are so rare. A screen of black lacquer, she went to Badovici for $ 374,000 in 1989.

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Its screens, panels, tables, chairs and carpets, furniture multipurpose, which includes storage and function. Gray also loved bright colors. But beware of cheap imitations Aram holds the only official worldwide license of its products.

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It was suggested the house E-1027 is an acronym for the names of its handset and Badovici, with the number representing the position of the letters of the alphabet - (E) = Eileen J (EAN) = 10 (B) adovici = 2, G (Ray) = 7).

Text to fall at a dinner?

Short on dessert? Serve some of Humble Pie Eileen. Never one to avoid imitation of his work, let American painter Frank Stella Gray copy its president Transat even give advice on how it could improve its design.

Biography Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray was born August 20, 1878, in an aristocratic family near Enniscorthy, a small town in south-east Ireland. Gray was the youngest of five children. His parents, James and Gray Eveleen Pounden Maclaren Gray were Scots / Irish descent. Gray's father, James, is a painter who encouraged his daughter's artistic interests. He took his daughter for visits of painting in Italy and Switzerland, which encouraged and his independent mind. Gray spent most of his life in childhood family environment, either in Ireland or South Kensington in London.

In 1898, at the age of twenty years, Gray attended the Slade School of Fine Arts, where she studied painting. While registering, it is knowledge with Jessie Gavin and Kathleen Bruce.

In 1900 (the year of the death of his father), Eileen Gray and her mother went to Paris to visit the Expo, which was Eileen's first visit to Paris. The Expo is an international exhibition that celebrates the achievements of the past century in the hope of encouraging new work in the next. The main style, he was Art Nouveau. Gray was a fan of the work that Charles Rennie Mackintosh was exposed.

Shortly afterward, Gray moved to Paris with his friends from the Slade School, Gavin and Bruce. Eileen Gray continued his studies at the Academie Julian and the Academie Colarossi. For some four or five years after the move, Gray came and went from Paris to Ireland to London, in 1905, she moved back to London that his mother fell ill. Eileen Gray made use of his time in London and joined the Slade, but found that his drawing and painting have been less satisfactory.

Gray ran into a lacquer repair s.