Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray, Rue de Lota Apartment, 1919

Searching some images for a class, I found myself for a long time leafing through an old book of Eileen Gray. The book isn't too much interesting in terms of writing, but it is a good catalog of her work. What excites me most about Gray's aren't exactly the pieces she conceived, most of them design icons of the twentieth century, but the ability she had of, in the same space, put pieces together from completely different contexts and the set still works balanced and elegant. An interior of Eileen Gray is often a cult and sophisticated space, where no part steals the role from the other, no matter how exotic its origins may be. The pieces live together in perfect harmony.