The long-awaited Eileen Gray exhibition opened at the Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York City on 28 February 2020. Cloé Pitiot, who was a curator at the Centre Georges Pompidou before moving to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, organized the show and edited the accompanying catalogue along with Bard's professor of curatorial practice Nina Stritzler-Levine. The Centre Pompidou is credited with organizing the exhibition in collaboration with the Bard Graduate Center. Pitiot curated the brilliant 2013 Eileen Gray exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris (repeated at the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin in 2014).

The substantial catalogue (504 pages), handsomely produced and designed by Irma Boom, compensates for the untimely closing of the New York exhibition. Following the introductory notices, the book includes three sets of essays, divided into sections titled “Beginnings,” “Being a Designer,” and “Being an Architect.” A set of case studies comes next, including...

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