Eileen gray

Eileen Gray, Ireland's most influential furniture designer, one of whose chairs sold for €25million, died in Paris in 1976 at the age of 98. Here, Mary McGuckian - writer and director of Eileen Gray biopic The Price of Desire which hits cinemas this weekend - celebrates her hero's life in 98 thoughts.

Eileen Gray, one of the most important designers of the 20th century, isn't as well-known as she should be because powerful men made a point of ensuring it.

Eileen Gray (1960) Cork and blond mahogany folding screen or paravent

March 27, 2013Irish-born Eileen Gray is one of the most intriguing figures in the history of French decorative arts. A one-time toast of le tout-Paris during the 1920s — Elsa Schiaparelli and Philippe de Rothschild, among others, snapped up her work — Gray faded into obscurity in the 1930s. But then in 1972, the auction […]

Take a tour of villa E-1027, Eileen Gray’s veritable icon of modernist architecture.

THE EXHIBITION Born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith-Gray in 1878 in Ireland, the woman who came to be known simply as Eileen Gray was one of the twentieth century's most accomplished designer-architects. Although today she is recognized as a pioneering woman in the predominantly male field of modern architecture, history largely forgot her after the Second

Modernist Villa E-1027 nestled into the coastline of Cap-Martin in the South of France was not only ahead of its time architecturally. Completed in 1929, architect Eileen Gray's unique vision for interior design; "camping style" allowed for the transformable room - the very definition of

Eileen Gray was a pioneer in the male-dominated fields of design and architecture, writes Colin Bisset. He revisits her iconic E0127 house design on the French Riviera, which was famously decorated by Le Corbusier, and a simple side table design that is widely copied today.

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Eileen Grey, Irish furniture designer and architect