The modern style has later been applied for furniture designs, even though it originated as a style for architecture. And the Irish-born architect and designer Eileen Gray was one of the people that helped made the way for the modern furniture movement. On August 1878, Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray was born. In both architecture and furniture design, Gray is known as one of the founder of the Modern movement. Today her works are still known collectibles and are regard as to be icons of the style.

Eileen Gray Side Table is one of Gray’s recognized furniture designs. The Side Table is a slim bedside table made of a polished metal frame and a rounded glass top was formed by Gray in 1927. The table was originally part of the furnishings at the E-1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France a home which Gray designed and create for herself. According to the story, Gray’s sister who often visited the E-1027 and liked eating breakfast in bed requested The Side Table. Certainly the table did exhihited a mechanism that granted it to adjust at certain heights and permit one to eat while in bed. In addition, with the Eileen Gray Tube the table was also complemented, named so because it was shaped like a trim metal cylinder. Part of Gray’s collection of “non-conformist” designs prevalent in her later years was both the Side Table and the Tube Light.

Eileen Gray’s Bibendum Chair is furniture design that she’s fondly believe for. The Bibendum chair was made by Gray between the years 1917 and 1920 and was part of the interior furnishings for the apartment of Rue de Lota in Paris considering it to be one of the most well-liked chair designs of the 20th century. The chair’s back/arm rest which consists of two semi-circular leather tube cushions is its most distinctive feature. From the fact that its tubular back/arm rests resembled that of the Bibendum mascot of the Michelin tires company is where the chair got its name. To help match the wall decorations on the Rue de Lota apartment and inhibit it from sticking out, the chair was made in plain red leather cover. Another was Gray’s first major attempt to shift from traditional furniture style to the modern style was the Bibendum . Simply to make “progress” was a change that the Irish designer Eileen Gray said.

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