Main entry:

Adam, Peter.

Title & Author:

Eileen Gray : architect/designer : a biography / Peter Adam.

Edition:

Rev. ed.

Publication:

New York : Harry N. Abrams, 2000.

Description:

407 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 396-400) and index.
Early Youth 11 -- Student Years 21 -- To Paris 25 -- Life as a Professional 47 -- The Lacquer Cult 73 -- The Great War 89 -- Entering the Twenties: Rue de Lota 93 -- Keeping a Shop: Jean Desert 119 -- Monte Carlo and Beyond 133 -- Jean Badovici 149 -- Turning Point 163 -- Toward an Architecture 171 -- E. 1027 191 -- Life as an Architect 239 -- A House for Herself: Tempe a Pailla 259 -- Building for Others 291 -- The Second World War 315 -- Starting Anew 325 -- The Last House: Lou Perou 349 -- Recognition at Last 369 -- Exhibitions 379 -- Catalogue Raisonne of Furniture 380 -- Catalogue Raisonne of Architectural Projects and Drawings 392.

Summary:

"The revised edition of this book delves into Gray's life and career, from her aristocratic Anglo-Irish upbringing, to her early days at London's Slade School of Art, to her seventy years as an expatriate in Paris, where she enjoyed a milieu of famous and eccentric friends. A self-taught architect, Gray held her own in a profession dominated by men, building two legendary modern houses that are considered landmarks of twentieth-century architecture. Drawing on previously unpublished material, Adam traces the evolution of her projects in photographs, plans, and sketches, and in this new edition provides an invaluable catalogue raisonne of Gray's furniture as well as her architecture and drawings." "In addition to expanding the catalogue raisonne, Adam has updated the book with new, important entries to the bibliography and the list of exhibitions, and a new introduction. Illustrated with 335 reproductions and photographs, Eileen Gray: Architect/Designer continues to be a necessity for all architects, designers, and collectors who admire her work."--Jacket.

ISBN:

0810941430
9780810941434

Subject:

Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976.
Architects France Biography.
Designers France Biography.
Architect-designed furniture France.
Architectes France Biographies.
Designers France Biographies.
Meubles conçus par des architectes France.
Architect-designed furniture.
Architects.
Designers.
Architects France 20th century Biography.
Designers France 20th century Biography.
France.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
Quotations (texts)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213610
Call No.: NA44.G778.9 A3 2000
Status: Available