Subject: Tonight's Film - Gray Matters

May 17, 2020

Gray Matters
Streaming live tonight at 8:00 pm ET. Replay at 11:00 pm ET
Director: Marco Orsini
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Tonight ADFF:ONLINE will present Gray Matters, a film about Eileen Gray.  She was an Irish architect and furniture designer and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. Her most famous work is the house known as E-1027 that was somehow credited to Le Corbusier for many years. He never denied it ,but he also always know that he did not design the house. 
This powerful film sets the record straight and also show the breadth of work by this truly remarkable design talent.

Tonight's screening - and the other screenings this week -are made possible with the generous support of our sponsors Eventscape, Suite NY and Teknion.

Villa E-1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

Eileen Gray exhibition originally shown at the Pompidou, the image is from Museum of Modern Art in Dublin.

Eileen Gray designed Black Block Screen, usually called the Badovici Screen, since this particular one was a gift to Jean Badovici from Eileen Gray

Le salon de verre (Glass Salon) designed by Paul Ruaud with furniture by Eileen Gray, for Madame Mathieu-Levy (Juliette Lévy), milliner of the boutique J. Suzanne Talbot, 9, rue de Lota, Paris, 1922 (published in L'Illustration, 27 May 1933)

Sunday, May 17th
Gray Matters
2014 / 76 min / Ireland & USA
Director: Marco Orsini

Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture. Her reputation bloomed in the early 20th century with her traditional lacquer work, then became a critically-acclaimed and much sought-after furniture designer and decorator before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she labored mostly in obscurity. Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building (which were persistently and perversely credited to her mentor), her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications. But she lived long enough to be re-discovered and newly-acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy remains elusive, contested and compelling.

After the screening, a Q&A with the film’s director, Marco Orsini


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