{"id":27703,"date":"2015-09-17T15:29:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T14:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/?p=27703"},"modified":"2017-07-12T17:19:40","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T16:19:40","slug":"20th-century-famous-designers-eileen-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-eileen-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"20th century famous designer &#8211; Eileen Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/landing\/100-best-hotel-and-restaurant\/?utm_source=brabbu2016&amp;utm_content=Header&amp;utm_campaign=Ebook\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-42776 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100-best-hotels-and-restaurants.jpg\" alt=\"100 best hotels and restaurants\" width=\"1120\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100-best-hotels-and-restaurants.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100-best-hotels-and-restaurants-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100-best-hotels-and-restaurants-768x171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100-best-hotels-and-restaurants-1024x229.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100-best-hotels-and-restaurants-740x165.jpg 740w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/100-best-hotels-and-restaurants-208x46.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1120px) 100vw, 1120px\"><\/a>In our today\u2019s rubric we are approaching the work of Eileen Gray, an Irish furniture <em><strong>famous designer<\/strong><\/em> and architect and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED HISTORY:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-ron-arad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\">20TH CENTURY FAMOUS DESIGNERS \u2013 RON ARAD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27706\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_.jpg\" alt=\"20th century famous designers - Eileen Gray\" width=\"705\" height=\"958\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_-221x300.jpg 221w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_-300x408.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_-473x643.jpg 473w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bocadolobo.com\/en\/index.php\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23215\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Boca-do-Lobo-banner-BB.jpg\" alt=\"Boca do Lobo banner BB\" width=\"705\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Boca-do-Lobo-banner-BB.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Boca-do-Lobo-banner-BB-300x39.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Boca-do-Lobo-banner-BB-208x27.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born in Enniscorthy, Ireland, she spent her childhood in London and was among the first women to be admitted to the Slade School of Art where she took up painting in 1898 before undergoing an apprenticeship in a lacquer workshop. She moved to Paris in 1902 where she quickly established herself as one of the leading designers of lacquered screens and decorative panels.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27707\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_1.jpg\" alt=\"20th century famous designers - Eileen Gray\" width=\"705\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_1.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"><\/p>\n<p>During the \u201820s and \u201830s she became one of the leading exponents of the revolutionary new theories of design and construction and worked closely with many of the outstanding figures of the modern movement, including Le Corbusier and JJP Oud. Well to the fore of this group she exhibited chrome, steel tube and glass furniture in 1925 \u2013 the same year as Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer and well before Le Corbusier. Her next major contribution to design was in architecture. Encouraged by Le Corbusier and JJP Oud, she designed two houses in the Alpes Maritimes, one at Roquebrune (built 1927-29), the other at Castellar (built 1932-34).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27708\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_2.jpg\" alt=\"20th century famous designers - Eileen Gray\" width=\"705\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_2.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_2-643x643.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.luxxu.net\/\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23219\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxxo-banner-BB.jpg\" alt=\"Luxxo banner BB\" width=\"705\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxxo-banner-BB.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Luxxo-banner-BB-300x39.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the war and up to her death, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2015\/07\/20th-century-famous-designers-vernon-panton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\">famous designer<\/a><\/strong> Eileen Gray continued to work as a designer, on both major projects like the cultural and social centre which occupied her from 1946-47, and on a number of smaller furniture designs. In 1972 she was appointed a Royal Designer to Industry by the Royal Society of Art, London. In 1973 Eileen Gray signed a Worldwide contract with Aram Designs, London, to bring her designs into production for the first time. The Museum of Modern Art added her legendary Adjustable Table E 1027 to its permanent design collection in 1978.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27709\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_3.jpg\" alt=\"20th century famous designers - Eileen Gray\" width=\"705\" height=\"705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_3.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_3-643x643.jpg 643w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-27710\" src=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_4.jpg\" alt=\"20th century famous designers - Eileen Gray\" width=\"705\" height=\"498\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_4.jpg 705w, https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-Eileen-Gray_4-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 705px) 100vw, 705px\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/20th-century-famous-designers-ettore-sottsass\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\">20TH CENTURY FAMOUS DESIGNERS \u2013 ETTORE SOTTSASS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/20th-century-famous-designers-joe-colombo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\">20TH CENTURY FAMOUS DESIGNERS \u2013 JOE COLOMBO<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our today\u2019s rubric we are approaching the work of Eileen Gray, an Irish furniture famous designer and architect and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. RELATED HISTORY:\u00a020TH CENTURY FAMOUS DESIGNERS \u2013 RON ARAD Born in Enniscorthy, Ireland, she spent her childhood in London and was among the first women to be admitted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":27705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1704],"tags":[6509,7101,477,7102,7096,7099,7100,7097,7098],"class_list":["post-27703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design2","tag-20th-century-famous-designers","tag-decorative-panels","tag-eileen-gray","tag-famous-designer-eileen-gray","tag-irish-furniture-designer","tag-lacquer-workshop","tag-lacquered-screens","tag-modern-movement","tag-slade-school-of-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brabbu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}