Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the 20th century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought after designer and decorator in the next before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she laboured largely in obscurity. Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building –persistently and perversely credited to her mentor–her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications. But she lived long enough (98) to be re-discovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested and compelling.
Gray Matters — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
The Black Brick Screen — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
Le Destin, the Milky Way, the Magician of the Night — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
The Rise of the Interior Designer — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
The Bohemian Choice of Paris — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
The Protective Shell — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
The Center of the Modern Movement — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
Decades of Obscurity — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
Eileen Gray as a Manifest — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
The Birth of an Icon — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
Movable Partitions — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
The Adjustable Table — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
A Magnificent Omission — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
Bitter and Forgotten — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
War Time — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
Le Corbusier Dies — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
e1027 as a Definitive Statement — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
Traces — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra
Le Corbusier Jealousy — Brian Byrne & RTE Concert Orchestra