Eileen gray — wikipédia

Eileen Gray born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith ; 9 August — 31 October was an Irish interior designer, furniture designer and architect who became a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. Over her career, she was associated with many notable European artists of her era, including Kathleen Scott , Adrienne Gorska , Le Corbusier , and the architect Jean Badovici , with whom she was romantically involved and who taught her architecture and collaborated with her on various buildings.

Gray split her upbringing between Brownswood House in Ireland and the family's home at No. Both Gray's brother and father died in Gray briefly attended a school in Dresden , Germany but was mainly educated by governesses.

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Gray's serious art education began in at the Slade School in London. Gray had many influential teachers at the Slade, including Philip Wilson Steer , a Romantic landscape painter, Henry Tonks , a surgeon and figure painter, and Frederick Brown. While at the Slade, Gray met furniture restorer Dean Charles in In , Gray returned to London to be with her ill mother.

Sugawara was from Jahoji, a village in northern Japan famous for its lacquer work, and he was in Paris to restore the lacquer pieces Japan had sent to the Exposition Universale. In , Gray opened a lacquer workshop with Sugawara. Gray served as an ambulance driver at the beginning of World War I before returning to England to wait out the war with Sugawara.