Furniture for E 1027 Villa by Eileen Gray at the Centre Pompidou (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise indicated) PARIS — Eileen Gray designed furniture that didn’t so much ...

Last fall, I fulfilled a dream of mine: to see pioneering Irish designer and architect Eileen Gray’s E-1027 villa, a modernist jewel with a storied past, opened to the public in 2021 after a lengthy ...

How Eileen Gray created her modernist villa in 1920s France, and a visit to the crumbling house many decades later ...

Gray is one of those art world figures who has been repeatedly rediscovered, but the best accounts of her life and wide-ranging creations came in Peter Adam’s 1987 book and his BBC documentary about ...

Very little remains of 20th-century Irish designer Eileen Gray’s architecture. Of the three buildings that saw completion, only her 1929 French Riviera villa E-1027 has been properly recognized and ...

To call E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea a documentary—as some have—is to do it (and documentaries) a disservice. The film is something else, something stranger, more impressionistic. The ...

From Ireland to Paris -- A moveable feast: Stephen Haweis, students and Paris -- The artist: painting, sculpture, photography -- The realm of lacquer -- Knotting and weaving: Eileen Gray's carpet ...

Eileen Gray was a pioneer of Modern furniture design and architecture. Influenced by De Stijl abstractions and Le Corbusier, she designed unique tables and chairs from glass, steel, lacquer, and wood.

Directors Beatrice Minger, who also is the writer, and co-director Christoph Schaub share credits on the prize-winning feature E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea. Using an unusually ...

The house certainly had optimistic—and idealistic—beginnings. “One must build for the human being, that he might rediscover in the architectural construction the joys of self-fulfillment in a whole ...