Hardcover in dust jacket. First printing. Book is crisp and clean in gray cloth boards. Dust jacket is crisp and clean, with nicks at tips of jacket. Stamped names of former owners, noted lighting designers, on inside from board. Illustrated throughout with photos, elevations, models and drawings of Gray's work and life. Small 4to. 400 pp. including index, list of exhibitions, and a catalogue raisonne. In protective Mylar. A heavy book that may require additional postage for international shipping. Seller Inventory # 95173

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Title: Eileen Gray: Architect/Designer

Publisher: Harry N Abrams, New York

Publication Date: 1987

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Edition: First edition.

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Eileen Gray started her career as a lacquer artist in Paris creating new furniture and living accessories with striking colors and understated shapes. Remaining stalwartly independent, Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on geometric forms and industrially produced materials. Her Bibendum chair and E-1027 table today are familiar icons across the world; the ship-shaped home she designed and built on a cliff near Monaco was hailed as a triumph of deluxe modern living; her Dragon chair fetched $28 million at a YSL sale. Her flamboyant beauty captured by photographer Berenice Abbott made her an admired figure among American expatriates such as Gertrude Stein and William Somerset Maugham. Her archives bombed during World War II, she was largely forgotten when one-time peers like Le Corbusier were lionized as visionaries. Rediscovered in 1960, she is today a celebrated pioneer of modern design.

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