Eileen Gray
Subtitle: her work and her world
By: Jennifer Goff
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Sallins, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780716532774; 9780716532767
Subjects: Designers
Description: "In this penetrating and thoroughly researched book, Jennifer Goff draws on newly available archival material to add in substantial ways to the scholarly literature on Eileen Gray. Goff explores the myriad influences behind Gray's work in her artistic practice, her furniture and carpets, and her architecture. The book elaborates on Le Corbusier's role as mentor to her early development as an architect, gray's relentless pursuit of perfection in her work during the latter years of her life, and, most appropriately, her ongoing self-identification as Irish."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: From Ireland to Paris; title: A moveable feast: Stephen Haweis, students and Paris; title: The artist: painting, sculpture, photography; title: The realm of lacquer; title: Knotting and weaving: Eileen Gray's carpet design; title: Engaging the senses: Eileen Gray and furniture; title: 'A House is not a Machine': Eileen Gray's domestic architecture; title: Stories from Dominica and beyond: Gray, Haweis and the collage at E.1027; title: A tale of two houses: Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier; title: For the people: social and cultural architecture; title: A kindred spirit: the Prunella Clough letters; title: Longing for home: Ireland and her later years