Gray Matters Soundtrack (2014)

Synopsis

Gray Matters explores the long and fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and challenged the practice of modernism in décor, design, and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the 20th century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator in the next before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she worked largely in the darkness. Aside from the accolades her first building received, persistently and perversely attributed to her mentor, her pioneering work was done quietly, privately, and to her own specifications. But she had enough (98) to be rediscovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like her creator, remains elusive, controversial and compelling.

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