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Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is widely known today as a pioneer of both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning nearly 80 years she produced innovative designs for furniture, lighting, carpets, interiors and architecture. Much less well known is that throughout her life as a designer and an architect she never stopped producing small paintings and(...)
Eileen Gray: the private painter
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Irish-born designer Eileen Gray (1878-1976) is widely known today as a pioneer of both Art Deco and Modernism. In a career spanning nearly 80 years she produced innovative designs for furniture, lighting, carpets, interiors and architecture. Much less well known is that throughout her life as a designer and an architect she never stopped producing small paintings and drawings. This book is the first to focus on Eileen Gray's important but essentially private work as a painter. Eileen Gray considered herself a designer and an architect, not a painter: she viewed her work as a painter with great modesty, treating it as a private occupation and a vehicle for artistic expression during periods when she could not design furniture. Much of her artwork has disappeared, either lost in the Second World War or destroyed by the artist herself. But a body of works on paper, produced between the 1920s and the 1950s, has survived: elegant, geometric drawings and gouaches of muted tonality and subtle power. This book, which reproduces unseen material from the Eileen Gray archive and draws on Gray's correspondence with her niece Prunella Clough on the nature of painting, will be a revelation to her many followers and admirers.
Design Monographs
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This book offers a novel view of the development of modern architecture through the prism of children’s construction toys. The authors discover a host of connections linking model-building sets with architectural movements, social history, and national identities. They investigate not only how model sets reflected building styles, but also whether they influenced the(...)
Architecture on the carpet : the curious tale of construction toys and the genesis of Modern buildings
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This book offers a novel view of the development of modern architecture through the prism of children’s construction toys. The authors discover a host of connections linking model-building sets with architectural movements, social history, and national identities. They investigate not only how model sets reflected building styles, but also whether they influenced the careers of children who grew up playing with them.
Architectural Theory
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236 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 37 cm
New York : Collins Publishers in association with I. Shapiro, 1987.
A day in the life of the Soviet Union / photographed by 100 of the world's leading photojournalists on one day, May 15, 1987 ; project directors, Rick Smolan and David Cohen.
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236 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 37 cm
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New York : Collins Publishers in association with I. Shapiro, 1987.