An intimate and inventively presented biography of Eileen Gray, an industrial designer who made revolutionary work with lacquer and whose architectural opus, E1027, has long been incorrectly attributed to Le Corbusier.
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is a French architect and urban designer
who graduated from ENSA-Marseille and TU Vienna. She is currently
Director of Studies of the MAS in Urban Design at the ETH Zurich,
where she now lives.
Zosia Dzierzawska is a Polish illustrator and comic author.
Architecture and living/urban space have always been important in
her work, as in her short story Waiting Rooms. She also authored
the full-length autobiographical novel, A Testa in Giù. She lives
in Zurich.
Eileen Gray's A House Under the Sun is not only a memoir of the
artist herself but an exploration of her work and the development
of her practise.
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Aided by Zosia Dzierzawska's muted illustrative palette, there's a
time-capsule pleasure in this retelling, thanks to the heartening
effect of seeing Gray's passions unfurl and the quiet-but-pointed
meditation on past erasures of women. It's a timely do-over: for
Gray, but also for architectural history.
*Urbis Magazine*
Almost 100 years on, Eileen Gray's structure has become a monument
for modern design. However, her story was eclipsed by the men with
whom she collaborated. Here, the focus is back on Gray & her
design.
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