Eileen Gray 1938
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Roisin Murphy 2009
"From the primordial soom
Out of the dim and the gloom we came
We are animals one unbroken chain"
From the primordial soom
Out of the dim and the gloom we came
We are animals by any other name
From the primordial soom
Out of the dim and the gloom we came
We are animals one unbroken chain
- Primitive, by Roisin Murphy
Eileen Gray... she designed this chair in about 1938 for her house at Castellar in the south of France, which was built to her own design between 1931 and 1933. The canvas seat is suspended in an S-bend of perforated, laminated wood, and the chair can be folded to half-size for storage. This chair is a prototype and has never been put into production. It was later given to the Museum by the designer. (taken from V of A museum in London.)
“One must be grateful to all those people who bother to unearth us and at least to preserve some of our work. Otherwise it might have been destroyed like the rest.” - Eileen Gray
1938 Chair
Laminated wood, painted, with canvas
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