The contemporary style movement has witnessed many movers and shakers in its long life, but possibly only a little can compete the creations provided by the Irish designer Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray to the movement. Much akin to her previous contemporaries Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, Eileen Gray integrated the artistry and uniqueness seen in contemporary architecture into furniture design and creating to many chairs, tables and other furnishings that are both useful things and works of art.

Came into the world on August 1878 in the little market municipality of Enniscorthy in southeast Ireland, Eileen Gray was the youngest of five children. His dad, James Maclaren Gray, was a painter by profession and trained Gray’s passion for the arts by carrying her to painting tours around Italy and Switzerland. In 1898, when she was twenty years old, she entred at the prominent Slade School of Fine Art of the University College London. However, soon after her father passed away in 1900 Gray went on with her college at the Acad

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