Eileen Gray

Eileen Gray Illustration by Robert BeckI first heard about Eileen Gray (1878 – 1976) via Andrée Putman, the recently deceased interior designer. Andrée who pulled off glove-tight Alaïa dresses and towering Louboutin heels like no one else – talk about dynamic and determined – drew public attention to Gray’s work in the late 1970s. As is often the case, the Irish-born Gray who was an icon of modernist design during the 1920s fell into oblivion. Shocking to...