Eileen Gray 'Lota' Sofa in High Gloss Lacquered Wood
Located in Waalwijk, NL
designer and architect Eileen Gray (1878-1976) initially designed this "Lota" sofa for Madam Mathieu-Lévy
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Materials
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Mathieu Levy
LOTA Sofa designed by Eileen GRAY in Cognac Coloured Leather
By Eileen Gray
Located in Berlin, Berlin
Cognac coloured leather. The sofa was designed by Eileen Gray in 1924 for the apartment Madame Mathieu
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Customizable ClassiCon Lota Sofa by Eileen Gray
By Eileen Gray
Located in New York, NY
The apartment of Madame Mathieu-Levy on Rue de Lota in Paris was regarded as one of the most
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Sofa in fabric ClassiCon Lota Sofa design Eileen Gray
By Eileen Gray
Located in Alcamo, IT
Gray’s celebrated interior design for the apartment of Madame Mathieu-Levy on Rue de Lota in Paris
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Materials
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Sofa in leather ClassiCon Lota Sofa design Eileen Gray
$24,641 / item
H 33.47 in W 94.49 in D 34.65 in
Sofa in leather ClassiCon Lota Sofa design Eileen Gray
By Eileen Gray
Located in Alcamo, IT
Gray’s celebrated interior design for the apartment of Madame Mathieu-Levy on Rue de Lota in Paris
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Materials
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1980s Black Leather Eileen Gray LOTA Sofa by ALIVAR Made In Italy
$9,650
H 34.5 in W 94.5 in D 35.5 in
1980s Black Leather Eileen Gray LOTA Sofa by ALIVAR Made In Italy
By Alivar, Eileen Gray
Located in Monrovia, CA
Restorations Have Been Made To Preserve It's Provenance. "The house of Madame Mathieu-Lévy" "Another of the
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Eileen Gray Lota Sofa
By Eileen Gray
Located in Pasadena, CA
apartment of Madame Mathieu Levy called Suzanne Talbot, the most successful modistes in Paris at that time
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LOTA Sofa by Eileen Gray
By Eileen Gray
Located in Berlin, Berlin
sofa was designed by Gray in 1924 for the apartment Madame Mathieu-Levy on Rue de Lota in Paris. It was
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Materials
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Unique Lota Sofa and Daybed by Eileen Gray
By Eileen Gray
Located in Voorburg, NL
Unique Lota sofa and daybed by Eileen Gray. The apartment of Madame Mathieu-Levy on Rue de Lota in
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Eileen Gray Modern Desk Table Lamp, France, 1930
By Eileen Gray
Located in Paris, FR
the rue de Lota flat of Madame Mathieu Lévy. In 1922 Eileen Gray opened Galerie Jean Désert, where she
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Materials
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Eileen Gray for Jumo French Art Deco Bakelite Desk or Table Lamp, Late 1930s
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H 18.51 in Dm 13.39 in
Eileen Gray for Jumo French Art Deco Bakelite Desk or Table Lamp, Late 1930s
By Eileen Gray
Located in Saint-Amans-des-Cots, FR
of the war, they returned to Paris and Gray was given the job of decorating the Mme Mathieu Levy
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Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Table Lamps
Materials
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Jumo Table Desk Lamp by Eileen Gray, France, 1940s
By Eileen Gray, Maison Jumo
Located in Paris, FR
rue de Lota flat of Madame Mathieu Lévy. In 1922 Eileen Gray opened Galerie Jean Désert, where she
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
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Eileen Gray "Lota" Sofa by Classico, Germany
By Eileen Gray
Located in Saint Paul, MN
The ICONIC Lota sofa was designed by Eileen Gray in 1924 for the apartment of Madame Mathieu-Levy
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Vintage 1920s German Sofas
Materials
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Eileen Gray Brick Screen, circa 2000
By Eileen Gray
Located in Longdon, Tewkesbury
Mathieu-Lévy, the owner of an exclusive millinery shop, the freestanding screen can be seen as a bridge
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By John Pawson, WonderGlass
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Located in Brecht, BE
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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.