Eileen gray

Eileen Gray, Ireland's most influential furniture designer, one of whose chairs sold for €25million, died in Paris in 1976 at the age of 98. Here, Mary McGuckian - writer and director of Eileen Gray biopic The Price of Desire which hits cinemas this weekend - celebrates her hero's life in 98 thoughts.

Eileen Gray, one of the most important designers of the 20th century, isn't as well-known as she should be because powerful men made a point of ensuring it.

Eileen Gray (1960) Cork and blond mahogany folding screen or paravent

A true icon of modern architecture, Villa E-1027 by Eileen Gray spent much of the 20thC in a state of disrepair before it's recent life-saving restorations.

Take a tour of villa E-1027, Eileen Gray’s veritable icon of modernist architecture.

Thanks to Sotheby’s, the lacquer screen and bird-focused table are going up on the auction block

Modernist Villa E-1027 nestled into the coastline of Cap-Martin in the South of France was not only ahead of its time architecturally. Completed in 1929, architect Eileen Gray's unique vision for interior design; "camping style" allowed for the transformable room - the very definition of

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To coincide with our new collection, we’re celebrating history’s Emotional Utilitarians. Designer-makers who committed themselves to the very plainly functional, with a touch of romanticism. Eileen Gray, pioneer and lover of lacquer, gives her middle name and particular brand of modernism to Moray.

The rue de Lota apartment designed by Eileen Gray with her Bibendum Chair, Serpent Chair and Block Screen visible in the doorway. http://designmuseum.org/design/eileen-gray