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Eileen Gray
[Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray] |
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* Enniscorthy, Ireland [Eire], 9 August 1878 |
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+ Paris, France [France], 31 October 1976 |
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France [France]
» Menton |
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France [France]
» Roquebrune-Cap Martin |
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WRITINGS
ABOUT THE ARCHITECT |
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| Tom Wilkinson, "Eileen Grey, 1878-1976", Architectural Review 1434, september 2016, pp. 36-39 |
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THE ARCHITECT IN CINEMA |
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| Orla Brady, Vincent Perez, Francesco Scianna, Alanis Morissette, Dominique Pinon, Elsa Zylberstein, Anne Lambton, David Herlihy |
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Protagonist
‘This is the price of desire’ explained Cheska Vallois, the woman who bid $28 million for Eileen Gray’s ‘Dragon Chair’ at the Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé sale in February 2008. ‘Who is Eileen Gray?’ the world’s assembled press wondered as the record-breaking bid made headlines the world over in the wake of the auction. The highest price ever paid for a piece of 20th century furniture.
A bisexual artist of aristocratic Anglo-Irish origin, Eileen Gray emerged in Paris first as a successful and forward thinking furniture designer for the beau-monde, and later as a self-taught architect influenced by the modernist movement, whose tenets she reinterpreted and invested with emotional and humanistic individuality in her most renowned house, the villa e1027 – built in 1926 on the Côte d’Azur.
Variously attributed to Jean Badovici and Le Corbusier, the house is now universally and rightfully recognised as Eileen Gray’s independent and innovative work. Le Corbusier’s effective denial of her influence on modern architecture and design, and the life-long inspiration this most abiding piece of architecture afforded his personal and professional life over a period of almost forty years, is the essence of the story of The Price of Desire.
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