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Eileen Gray: An Architecture for All Senses edited by Caroline Constant and Wilfried Wang |
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Eileen Gray: An Architecture for All Senses documents Eileen
Gray's achievements as an architect and designer. While the number of
her realized buildings is small (and the examples that are fully extant
virtually zero), the number and variety of projects that she developed
over a career that spanned almost seven decades is impressive. The inventive
realism of
these unbuilt projects, frequently anticipating buildings by other architects,
attests to the agility and precision of her mind. This book gives an
account of Gray's development from lacquer work to architecture, her
role in the reform of the decorative arts, and her position vis-a-vis
dominant technocratic modernism, complete with a selection of the most
important
architectural designs of her career.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Wilfried Wang and Caroline Constant
ESSAY
Elegance and Abstraction: on Eileen Gray's Lacquer Works
Volker Fischer
Lacquer Works
Stephan von der Schulenburg
Typography
Carpets
ESSAY
Contested Modernisms
Suzanne Tise
Furniture
Lighting
Seating
Tables and Chests
Interiors
DIALOGUE
From Eclecticism to Doubt
Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici
ESSAY
Voices Between the Lines: Talking in the Gray Zone
Sarah Whiting
Early Architectural Projects
Three Story Villa
House for an Engineer
E.1027, Maison en Bord de Mer
ESSAY
A Virtual Reconstruction of the Maison en Bord de Mer
Stefan Hecker Kitsios & Christian F. Müller
Rue Bonaparte Apartment
Badovici Apartment
Tempe à Pailla
ESSAY
Architecture and the Politics of Leisure
Caroline Constant
Later Architectural Projects
Camping Tent
Exhibition Pavilion
Petites Maisons "F.G."
House for Two Sculptors
House in the Boulevard des Madelines
Four Story Villa
Apartment Slab
Skyscraper
Textile Institute
Vacation and Leisure Center
Ellipse House
Art Gallery
Maisons de Rapport Suspendues
Exposition Building
Cultural and Social Center
Kindergarden/Day Care Center
Garage in the Tuileries
Lou Peroú
Biography
Bibliography
Index
Publication Title
Eileen Gray: An Architecture for All Senses
Year Published
1996, Harvard University Graduate School of Design
Editor(s)/Author(s)
Caroline Constant and Wilfried Wang
Format
224 pages, essays on and color and black and white images of Gray's
buildings and furniture
In the Frances Loeb Library:
General Collections: NA1053.G73 A4x 1996
Special Collections: Rare NA1053.G73 A4x 1996