Eileen Gray: Her Work and Her World
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| Rating | : | 4.34 (631 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 071653276X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 512 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Why Gray matters Andrew S. Rogers As I write this review, the premiere of "The Price of Desire," a feature film starring my favorite actress, the magnificent Orla Brady, as the Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray is just hours away. The film is the latest project to debut as part of the loose "Eileen Gray Project" (#EileenGrayProject in social media). Other projects gathered under this umbrella have included the documentary film "Gray. "Five Stars" according to Eric Gering. Excellent work
This is an enlightening portrait of her life and the emergence of modernism Highly recommended." - Choice, July 2015, Vol. The primary source material for this book is drawn from the Eileen Gray collection at the National Museum of Ireland and its wealth of documentation, correspondence, personal archives, photographs, and oral history. Illustrations and images tell her story as an artist, architect, and interior designer, and a photographer. Eileen Gray - the renowned and highly influential architect, furniture-maker, interior designer, and photographer - was born in Ireland and remained, throughout her life, an Irishwoman at heart. The book also offers rare insights into Gray's early years as an artist. The book is an essential tie-in with the soon-to-be-released motion picture 'The Price of Desire' by Mary McGuckian, as well as the documentary film 'Gray Matters' by Marco Orsini. *** "'Eileen Gray' is an entertaining and revealing book that should at long last paint the brilliant designer out of the margins and into the limelight where she so clearly belongs." -- Architectural Digest, January 2015 *** "This stirring biography of Eileen