The legendary Eileen Gray has come to represent many different creative areas over the years, depending on whom you speak to. In design circles, she is regarded as a visionary figure, known for making an influential imprint with her memorable modern furniture and interiors on an otherwise male-dominated field. To...
An exhibition at New York’s Bard Graduate Center Gallery titled ‘Eileen Gray: Crossing Borders’ explores the twists and turns of the designer’s oeuvre through furniture, femininity and filmThe legendary Eileen Gray has come to represent many different creative areas over the years, depending on whom you speak to. In design circles, she is regarded as a visionary figure, known for making an influential imprint with her memorable modern furniture and interiors on an otherwise male-dominated field.
All of these different facets of Gray, who was born in 1878 to an upper-class family in Ireland, are illuminated in a seminal exhibition entitled ‘Eileen Gray: Crossing Borders’, which opens at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York City this weekend – the first exhibition dedicated to showcasing the totality of Gray’s oeuvre in the United States. Curated by Cloé Pitiot, who oversaw the groundbreaking exhibition ‘Eileen Gray.
‘But because [the pieces] are so different, there is a real harmony in what she does,’ Pitiot adds. ‘It was impossible to [pinpoint] her style. It was a real problem at one point, because it was not decorative arts, it was not modern. There was a lyricism, a lot of emotion and [that was something] people had never seen. What she wanted to do with interiors and architecture was to create something for the soul and the body. It was not to do something for a movement.
Above all, there is an undercurrent of sensuality that runs through the works in the exhibition like a connective thread. Whether it is the elegantly detailed surface of a lacquered accordion screen, or the trapezoidal shape of a desk, or the curve in the seat of a banquette made for the bedroom, there is no denying the feminine quality of Gray’s creative hand across the different scales and mediums.‘We have a history of doing exhibitions that highlight women.
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