Eileen Gray
The Private Painter
$111.28
- Hardcover
104 pages
- Release Date
14 October 2015
Summary
Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is widely known today as a pioneer of both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning nearly 80 years she produced innovative designs for furniture, lighting, carpets, interiors and architecture. Much less well known is that throughout her life as a designer and an architect she never stopped producing small paintings and drawings. This book is the first to focus on Eileen Gray’s important but essentially private work as a painter.Eileen Gray cons…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781848221833 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1848221835 |
| Author: | Peter Adam, Andrew Lambirth |
| Publisher: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 104 |
| Release Date: | 14 October 2015 |
| Weight: | 856g |
| Dimensions: | 265mm x 228mm |
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‘an intimate portrait of the woman behind the designer’ Antiques Trade Gazette
About The Author
Peter Adam
Peter Adam is a filmmaker and writer who was a friend of Eileen Gray for over 15 years. His previous publications include Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work: The Biography (2009). Andrew Lambirth has written extensively on 20th-century British art, and his books include Roger Hilton, John Hoyland, John Armstrong and Margaret Mellis.
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