Eileen Gray
General Information
Occupation: Industrial Designer, Architect
Date of Birth: August 09, 1879
Date of Death: October 31, 1976
Birth City: Brownswood
Birth State/Province: Enniscorthy
Birth Country: Ireland
Resident City: Paris
Archive/Repository: National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts and History, located at Collins Barracks
Sources: Doering, Erika, Rachel Sivitzky, and Rebecca Welz. Goddess in the Details: Product Design by Women: an Exhibition Organized by the Association of Women Industrial Designers and the Department of Exhibitions At Pratt Institute. New York City: Association of Women Industrial Designers, 1994.
Specialties
Subject: furniture designer and architect
Description: First known as a lacquer artist, then a furniture designer and finally as an architect
Jobs
Employer: Galerie Jean Desert
Title: Owner
Collaborators
No collaborators on record
Apprenticeships
No apprenticeships on record
Awards
Name: Royal Designer to Industry
Notes: by the Royal Society of Art, London
Exhibitions
No exhibitions on record
Notable Projects
Title: E-1027 Side Table
Notes: Eileen Gray Table
Title: Tempa a Pailla
City: Castellar
Url: http://www.irish-architecture.com/architects_ireland/eileen_gray/castellar.html
Title: E-1027
Url: http://www.irish-architecture.com/architects_ireland/eileen_gray/names.html
Notes: First architectural work
Education
Institution: Slade School of Art in London, England
Notes: Studied painting
Licensing
No licenses on record
Professional Affiliations
Organization: Union des Artistes Modernes
Publications By
No publications by on record
Publications About
Title: Goddess in the Details: product design by women
Author: Erika Doering, Rachel Sivitzky, Rebecca Welz
Publisher: Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID)
City: New York City
Date Published: January 01, 1994
Notes: published in conjunction with an exhibition organized by The Association of Women Industrial Designers and the Department of Exhibitions at Pratt Institute
Title: Eileen Gray
Author: Caroline Constant
Publisher: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
Notes: October 2000
Title: The History of Women Architects
Author: Sonja Gunther, Christine Jachmann, Helga Schmidt-Thomsen; Miclle Stanley (translator)
Publication: Exhibit Catalog
Publisher: ABC Satz and Druck GmbH
City: Berlin
Notes: This is a catalog published for the exhibit of the UIFA (Union Internationale des Femmes Architectes) . An exhibition of the German Federal Republik Section of the UIFA within the framework of the IBA (International Building Exhibition) in Berlin.
Title: Eileen Gray
Author: Stephen Hecker and Christian Muller
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications, Incorporated
Notes: August 1993
Title: Eileen Gray
Author: P. Garner
Publisher: Taschen America, LLC
Notes: February 1996
Title: Eileen Gray
Author: .
Publisher: Ernst J. Wasmuth Verlag GmbH & Company
Notes: September 2000
Title: Eileen Gray
Author: Penelope Rowlands
Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC
Notes: March 2002
Title: Eileen Gray
Author: J. Stewart Johnson
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Notes: February 1979
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