04/04/2025
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM - Viktoria Schabert
Viktoria Schabert (Ed.)
RPTU Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM is the summary of an unpublished series of concertina leaflets that deals with the life and work of the Irish architect, designer, and artist Eileen Gray.
The series was created as part of a seminar at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU) during the winter term 2023/24.
It contains a total of seven different works:
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF LIFE
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF OBJECTS
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF SEATINGS
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF TABLES
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF CABINETS
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF INTERIOR DESIGN
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE
The publication comprises drawings of selected and realised projects by Eileen Gray as well as an outline of her life story. The following graphic illustrations serve to intuitively examine and analyse the selected works, detached from their context. Instead of explaining them in detail, they focus on the shape and the designer’s idea. The visualisation was kept deliberately restrained - the more reductive the drawing, the more scope for interpretation opens up to the recipient.
The sections ‘Interior design’ and ‘Architecture’ emphasise the interrelationship between furniture and architecture: Eileen Gray designed “Gesamtkunstwerke” (total artworks) by analysing, considering and finally combining both. In “E.1027” and “Tempe à Pailla” in particular, the interior design is inevitably linked
to the architecture and vice versa.
The works shown in this publication represent a selected part of the designer’s creative spectrum.
EILEEN GRAY’S MUSEUM focuses on what mattered most to the artist – her work.
Mitwirkende Studierende:
Svenja Brehm, Hanna Brown, Joshua Deimling, Elissa Dregert, Nina Groß,
Merve Güngör, Helen Guisl, Hannah Hüttenberger, Kim Hussong, Fabienne
Jost, Pauline Klenner, Julia Kochendörfer, Noa Kornmayer, Selina
Krystofiak, Rebecca Mayer, Andres Pinzon, Johanna Saran, Almedina Softic,
Vanessa Wagner, Sina Walter
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