Main entry:

Goff, Jennifer, author.

Title & Author:

Eileen Gray : Her Work and Her World / Jennifer Goff.

Publication:

Sallins, Co. Kildare, Ireland : Irish Academic Press, 2015.
©2015

Description:

512 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 488-499) and index.
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 Design -- Engaging the Senses: Eileen Gray and Furniture -- 'A House is not a Machine': Eileen Gray's Domestic Architecture -- Stories from Dominica and Beyond: Gray, Haweis and the Collage at E.1027 -- A Tale of Two Houses: Eileen Gray and Le Corbusier -- For the People: Social and Cultural Architecture -- A Kindred Spirit: The Prunella Clough Letters -- Longing for Home: Ireland and Her Later Years.

Summary:

"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."--Back cover.

ISBN:

9780716532774 (cloth)
0716532778 (cloth)
9780716532767 (paperback)
071653276X (paperback)

Subject:

Gray, Eileen, 1878-1976.
Furniture designers Ireland Biography.
Furniture designers France Biography.
Women architects Ireland Biography.
Women architects France Biography.
Dessinateurs de meubles Irlande Biographies.
Dessinateurs de meubles France Biographies.
Femmes architectes Irlande Biographies.
Femmes architectes France Biographies.
Art and Design.
Furniture designers.
Women architects.
Innenarchitektur
Möbel
Design
Designers France 20th century Biography.
Designers Ireland 20th century Biography.
France.
Ireland.

Form/genre:

Biographies.
Biography.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 295181
Call No.: BIB 241271
Status: Available