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Gray Matters

Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, 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 laboured largely in obscurity. Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building – persistently and perversely credited to her mentor – her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications. But she lived long enough (98) to be re-discovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested and compelling.

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Director:
Marco Orsini
Year:
2015
Country:
Ireland, Monaco, USA, France, Germany, UK
Genre:
Documentary
Duration:
76 minutes
Language:
French, English
Subtitles:
English, Romanian

Awards and festivals:

AIA Film Festival / Virginia Film festival / Architecture and Design Film Festival / ArCH Film Fest / Urban Mediamakers Film Festival / Hamptons International Film FestivalAIA Film Festival / Virginia Film festival / Architecture and Design Film Festival