Eileen Gray
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews ‘E.1207’ the life and work of the remarkable Irish furniture designer EILEEN GRAY
Around 1921, at the age of 43, the Irish furniture designer Eileen Gray, whose partners had previously all been women, met the much younger, penniless, architectural critic Jean Badovici and fell in love. They decided to build a house together in the south of France. Although their hideaway, perched on the side of a cliff…
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Eileen Gray : a queer Irish iconic architect and designer
Eileen Gray was one of the greatest Irish architects and furniture designers ever, and also a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. Her most famous work is the house known as E-1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. She was also queer. Early on Gray used luxurious materials like exotic woods, ivory and furs. In the mid-1920s, her pieces…
