Experimental female designer | Eileen Gray | V&A

Eileen Gray (1878 - 1976) was an architect and furniture designer and an important figure within the Modernist movement but as a female, her work wasn’t always given the recognition it deserved.
Hear about how she rose in prominence, and take a closer look at her intriguing ‘S’ bend chair - complete with a hidden function.
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[@kittymervine6115]

thank you. Her chairs are incredible... and inspiring.

[@lucianomenomen5146]

Amazing! 💖

[@pabloplato]

E.1027 was unfortunately defaced by Le Corbusier without permission from EIleen, and much to her chagrin, destroying her envisioned aesthetics, and claiming dominion over her work. Cause, you know, women in art are always relegated to the annotations of a more celebrated male artist.

[@Schmunzel57]

The strukture is Bend wood? oder Plywood? and the spacers are also wood? Or is it partly Alu ?

[@finnersmcspeed5646]

Just curious, what is the chair that appears in the modern chairs exhibition poster ?

[@michaelepp6212]

Ribbon Lounge Chair, 1966, by Pierre Paulin

[@roshani.d]

Hi

[@tammcd]

Thoroughly, utterly unnecessary, irritatingly repetitive background noise.

[@clearmenser]

Wrong, it's perfectly modern and excellently mirrors the breakthrough aesthetics of the time being discussed. Learn you some aesthetic.

[@tammcd]

@@v8isgross "Music" is generous.

[@E-Kat]

I agree with you! We choose a program but for some strange reason they dump music on us!!
This program isn’t about music, it has nothing to do with music, yet they think we aren’t able to absorb information without music of their choice being played in the background!!!
If I chose to listen to classical music on TH-cam, will there be someone talking in the background?
When a friend comes to visit us, we will say “ wait a minute, I need to put the background music first!” before he/she starts talking! 😂

[@tammcd]

@@E-Kat It would not be so bad if the background noise actually *were* music.

[@E-Kat]

@@tammcd I agree again. Didn’t want to be unkind but they’re unkind to us by subjecting us to this repetitive sequence of noise played on the loop! I suppose it was cheaper to commission a short bit of noise and just play it as long as needed!
Do you think one day we will be able to turn off the background racket in the settings?
Wouldn’t that just make your day?
Imagine watching films without any background racket, just with the normal sounds of life.