A 22m chair? Eileen Gray, the design genius who scared the pants off Corbusier
Her ravishing interiors shocked Paris, thrilled the avant-garde and gave the world its most expensive chair. But the fast-living aristocrat wasnt just overlooked Le Corbusier actually vandalised her work naked A room fit only for nightmares and insomnia. This was the response of one critic to Eileen Grays radical scheme for a bedroom in 1923, installed at the 14th Salon de la Socit des Artistes Dcorateurs in Paris. The Irish designers daring De Stijl movement, who saw her installation pictured in a journal. I am highly interested and should like…
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