{"id":27021,"date":"2024-07-26T10:15:03","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T08:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=27021"},"modified":"2024-07-26T10:48:51","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T08:48:51","slug":"experimental-female-designer-eileen-gray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/experimental-female-designer-eileen-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Experimental female designer: Eileen Gray"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"780\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HugX1wMS18s?si=LIQH6IAm53xyfEdQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (4:52): Experimental female designer: Eileen Gray. Video by V&#038;A, London (2020).<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n<h2>About Eileen Gray (1878-1976)<\/h2>\n<p>Modernist Irish architect, designer, visionary, and openly bisexual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eileengray.co.uk\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Eileen Gray<\/a> (1878-1976) was born into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family. Her father, James MacLaren Smith, was a Scottish landscape painter who took his daughter on painting tours in Italy and Switzerland. Eileen Gray studied painting at London&#8217;s Slade School of Fine Art but soon sought another avenue for her creativity: craft, funiture design and architecture. Gray moved to Paris to study art in 1902 and lived in France for the rest of her life. She was a pioneer. In 1922, she set up a gallery from which she sold her own designs. From 1922\/1923 to 1926 Gray created an informal architectural apprenticeship for herself and became an architect with no formal training. Her most famous work is the house known as E-1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France. Early on Eileen Grey used luxurious materials like exotic woods, ivory and furs in her furniture design. In the mid-1920s, her pieces became simpler and more industrial. This reflects her growing interest in the aestetics of the Modernists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (4:52): Experimental female designer: Eileen Gray. Video by V&#038;A, London (2020).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1462],"tags":[136],"class_list":["post-27021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-great-britain","tag-eileen-gray"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}