Eileen Gray For Classicon
Mid-20th Century Sofas
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Western European Rugs
Wool
21st Century and Contemporary German Art Deco Dining Room Sets
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Dining Room Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Lounge Chairs
Upholstery
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Wall Mirrors
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Western European Rugs
Wool
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Sofas
Fabric
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Sofas
Leather, Fabric
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
2010s German Floor Lamps
Steel
2010s German Floor Lamps
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Lounge Chairs
Upholstery
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
Early 2000s German Bauhaus Sofas
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Stools
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Dining Room Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Western European Rugs
Wool
Vintage 1980s French Modern Sofas
Metal
2010s German Chairs
Leather
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Dining Room Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Dining Room Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Dining Room Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Dining Room Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Dining Room Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Western European Rugs
Wool
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
1990s German Modern Sofas
Wool, Wood
Vintage 1920s German Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1920s German Sofas
Fabric, Lacquer
Mid-20th Century European Art Deco Sofas
Fabric, Wood, Lacquer
Early 20th Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Chrome
20th Century European Cabinets
Maple
Vintage 1920s English Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Metal, Chrome
Vintage 1920s Irish Art Deco Side Tables
Chrome
Early 20th Century German Art Deco Side Tables
Metal, Steel, Chrome
Vintage 1920s German Modern Club Chairs
Vintage 1920s German Modern Club Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1920s French Bauhaus Daybeds
Fabric
Vintage 1950s German Modern Side Tables
Steel, Chrome
Vintage 1980s British Armchairs
Leather
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Side Tables
Steel
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Chrome
Vintage 1980s German Bauhaus Tables
Stainless Steel, Chrome
Vintage 1920s German Side Tables
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary German Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Chrome
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Eileen Gray For Classicon For Sale on 1stDibs
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Eileen Gray for sale on 1stDibs
Designer, artist and architect Eileen Gray was one of the most fascinating creative figures of the 20th century. Her body of work includes lustrous lacquered pieces — her Dragons chair set an auction record for modern furniture ($28 million) at the 2009 sale of the Yves Saint Laurent estate — and sleek chrome furnishings that rival the work of Le Corbusier and the members of the Bauhaus as exemplars of pure, modernist design.
The independent and unconventional daughter of Irish landed gentry, Gray studied painting at London’s Slade School of Fine Art in her early twenties before moving to Paris in 1906 to pursue her artistic dreams. Gray had become captivated by lacquerware after seeing an exhibit in the Victoria & Albert Museum, and in Paris persuaded an expatriate Japanese master of the painstaking process, Seizo Sugawara, to teach her. Within a few years, Gray had become known among the cognoscenti for her sculptural lacquered furnishings, which she incorporated into the homes of interior design clients.
Gray was ever evolving as a designer. By the early 1920s she was creating geometric works that embodied the essence of Art Deco and the nascent modernist design movement. Some pieces — such as her Bricks screen, an assemblage of pivoting rectangular panels — employ the planar forms favored by Gerrit Rietveld and other De Stijl architects of the Netherlands. Others feature the tubular chrome framing used by Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. These include the Bibendum chair — named for the resemblance of its semicircular back and armrest to the character known in English as the Michelin Man — and the adjustable E 1027 side table, conceived in 1927 for the interiors of a stark white villa she designed for herself in the South of France.
Never a self-promoter, Gray drifted out of the limelight in the 1930s. Interest in her work was revived in the early ’70s, however, when the estates of her early clients came to auction. Her original lacquer pieces are the most coveted, but, as the sale of the Dragons chair shows, are rare and extremely expensive.
None of Gray’s designs were made in large numbers until, a few years before her death, she granted a production license. These pieces range in price from $1,000 to $2,500, depending on furniture type and condition. Gray’s work has become iconic of practical and elegant modernist design. Yet, as you will see on 1stDibs, many of her creations have a simplicity that makes them welcome even in a traditional setting.
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