Eileen Gray: Intimate Architecture Musee De L'elysee 5 cm x 28 cm

5 cm x 28 cm

This extensive book contains the first in-depth examination of such exemplary curatorial projects as The Blue House

Guided by Mekas’ distinctive prose and suffused with warmth

She creates seemingly decorative compositions that actually offer us a catalogue of contemporary anxieties

What difference does it make if a newspaper reports on a worker protest as if it were a theatre piece

Eileen Gray: Intimate Architecture Musee De L'elysee 5 cm x 28 cmEileen Gray was one of the most emblematic figures of the art deco and modernist movements, having developed a new and intimate form of architecture over her 50 year career. Through her projects, and with great independence with regard to her contemporaries and critics, she anticipated the eternal movement of sensitivities, optimising the relation between space and furniture, defying conventions and uses, and advocating a return to emotion. This