A brief introduction to Eileen Gray

[@lillalillalillalilla]

Great presentation, helped me a lot to prepare for my design history class! Eileen Gray was such a wonderful designer!

[@followyourgypsyheart6130]

So lovely to see this. My son purchased the E table in the chrome version (60s). Came up in an estate sale. Nice presentation.

[@hildamcevoy5882]

Such a lovely, cohesive presentation. Thank you

[@simonajausovec7518]

Dear sir, I thank you for your instructive, well researched and funky presentations; you're are a legend!

[@eckosters]

Thank you! I didn't know about her, just read an article about her in the NY Review of books and decided to look her up. What a wonderful introduction is this presentation. Now I must watch those movies and learn more about her furniture, which is so appealing!

[@amandabenstead8574]

Thank you so much for this. Brilliant. Inspiring. Generous.

[@jaamaapii]

This is perfect. I have to write a paper about her and I like to get a summery of me subject before starting my own research. Just for a quick overview. This one was just the right amount of info to get me interested in her, while giving me the needed information to understand my research better. Thank you ^^

[@ayeshanoorarshad4301]

I also have to write a paper on her work so if you can share yours with me it would be really helpfull

[@rmonson5002]

Great video. I am fully intrigued. This video just sparked a new design obsession. Well done!

[@DavidMichiels]

I absolutely love your presentations. I hope there will be more of them in the future!

[@theresalasalle1845]

Excellent Thanks so much Matthew! I haven't any talent in such things....but so appreciative of them. Thanks for all of this!

[@jayerjavec]

Glad to see another fine presentation. Thanks for sharing.

[@jimmyrafferty6241]

I am sitting in Enniscourty castle 2nd floor which has a small but good exhibit on Eileen's work. She was born nearby. I'm looking at her some of her pieces watching your video. Great work.

[@davidyounglove8224]

Very enjoyable presentation, and a nice coincidence, having just seen the cork top dining table while wandering through MoMA yesterday. It turns out the handle telescopes to support additional leaves. Once a party girl…

[@jamesboekbinder3967]

Wonderful presentation, as always! Thanks1

[@garrymileyarchitect]

Excellent presentation. Clear and insightful.

[@Mickla]

Great work! The mother of modernism.

[@eileenoneill1805]

Very proud of this amazing Irish woman.

[@MrVorpalsword]

about the best most succinct explanations of design on t'internet, thank you.

[@katharinaloffelmann481]

thank you so much for this! especially for capturing the creepy and bizarre side of the story with le corbusier.

[@mrreeves6811]

Another fascinating story about a true designer that nobody really knew about, Legend !

[@artqueststudio]

andrew reeves True.

[@StephenColes]

Stellar presentation.

[@2mnyshp]

I just love her pieces! Light but also robust, beautifully modern and functional.

[@jakub1859]

You all should go watch the new movie about her! E1027 Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea. It’s beautiful.

[@lenalynam6814]

Great presentation, thank you. I am doing research on the non confromist chair. Do you know if Breuer was influenced by this chair for his Wassily or vice versa?

[@defaultmysq]

Great video

[@MoeJusNiks]

This was so very helpful and super interesting! I am writing a thesis about the contrast between Le Corbusier and Eileen Gray, their careers and everything that came with it. At least that is a part of my thesis. So you can imagine how happy I am to stumble upon your video! Thanks a lot :)

[@HistoryofID]

Well that sounds like a thesis I'd want to read!

[@olivermcerlean8386]

Fantastic informative video. Well done.

[@TT-ky3ql]

Thank you for the video this is amazing

[@chantal2137]

Where did you get your references and analysis of the comparison between Corbusier's Esprit Nouveau and E1027. Specifically how E1027 pushed the Le Corbusier's own ideas more strongly through a more powerful use of his principles on the interior of her design. Was this just your own opinion?

[@neilx4825]

Really useful presentation Thanks a lot

[@joockescholte5473]

Thank you for this....

[@baskets8429]

Beautiful furniture

[@ShowandTellknitting]

Thanks for suggesting the films about her. I just watched The Price of Desire and was surprised to see a degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology prominently displayed amongst her papers shown at the end. There didn't seem to be a name on that diploma, which was odd. Do you know why that artifact would have been included in a story of her life? I can't find any information about her having attended MIT, and I know they don't give honorary degrees.

[@HistoryofID]

I don't know but will ask around....

[@ShowandTellknitting]

@@HistoryofID Can't ask for more than that! Thx.

[@followyourgypsyheart6130]

She really is a true minimalist

[@piamarierothermund3161]

do you have any sources for all the amazing pictures or can suggest an online archive where I can access them? I am currently working on a short video about Eileen Gray and I would love to work with some of those images! Thank you for your help!

[@HistoryofID]

There are a few really great books with all these images. But in 2020 lockdown world that isn't much help. The Bard Graduate Center had a show about her that perfectly coincided with lockdown so I didn't get to see it, but they made a digital tour. I suspect there would be good information available on their website!

[@gavinwooable]

Hi would it be possible to get a copy of this ?

[@Raphael-to5eg]

14:25 Le Corbusier died in 1965 not 1957

[@HistoryofID]

Right you are! One of the MANY problems with uploading videos is how unchangeable they are. FULL of mistakes, with nothing to do but cringe..... Thanks!

[@Raphael-to5eg]

@@HistoryofID ;) - still very grateful for the great videos! Thank you!

[@juliandavidac]

Amazing

[@leetran7123]

I know about Eileen Gray from an LSAT RC stimulus

[@stevendornbusch9240]

Inclusion by Le Corbusier (or Pierre Jeanneret) in their 1925 Pavillon de l'Esprit Nouveau utopian model home of an 1840 Thonet chair is entirely "modern", IF modernism is a choice beyond latest fashion --Art Moderne / Art Deco enthusiasm, taking Paris. The Thonet choice shows sobriety, not functional negligence. Far more honestly than those twice-altered somewhat fictional grain silos in Corbusier's "Towards an Architecture". Would we say the same regarding the work and critical interventions of Charlotte Perriand? These choices aren't (Rietrveld's) Zig-Zag seating discourse, either. Like the leather club chairs, this low back Thonet model is useful and (but more easily) movable. Nearly perfect, not unlike vernacular examples. Thonet Industrial production continues to this day. 15:58 Those aren't 4 identical pieces, but 2 different pairs (Count the slats) with an identical S-bend in all 4. GREAT point regarding WHY Ms Gray's e1027 masterpiece survived the 20th Century --patriarchal misattribution to Corbusier. As you explain, no oversight. Along the long aspect, facing the water, those integrated canvas parts eschew "masculine" monumentality. Her choices even speak to impermanence, vulnerability & survival, above notions of Great Builders immortality. Vanity notwithstanding, no structure survives without significant maintenance. E1027: A laboratory for luxurious simple living. Eileen Gray is finally getting her due.

[@kidmohair8151]

10:08 I don't understand breakfast in bed...it's overrated

[@alexmckenna1171]

Can't wait till I turn into a bad-ass old lady like her.

[@nineteenfortyeight]

Thanks. I hate it.

[@nordfaen]

Thank YOU very much :D