Eileen Gray
Architect + Furniture Designer (1878 – 1976)
Eileen Gray is now regarded as one of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early 20th century and the most influential woman in those fields. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco.
She was to “stand alone” throughout her career first as a lacquer artist, then a furniture designer and finally as an architect. At a time when other leading designers were almost all male and mostly members of one movement or another, but she remained stalwartly independent.
Her design style was as distinctive as her way of working, and Gray developed an opulent, luxuriant take on the geometric forms and industrially produced materials used by International Style designers.
Hans J Wegner
Architect + Furniture Designer (1914 – 2007)
With his love of natural materials and his deep understanding of the need for furniture to be functional as well as beautiful, Hans J Wegner made mid-century Danish design popular on an international scale.
The real beauty of Wegner’s genius must be seen in context with his collaboration with master cabinetmaker Johannes Hansen.
Wegner works with many different materials, old and modern. Yet, as no one else he understands the nature of wood and the possibilities and limitations which this family of materials represents.
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