Vintage View: The affordable work of Eileen Gray

IRISH women designers are often promoted for their essential qualities of firstly, being Irish and secondly, for being women.

Even now this is done before the content and importance of their work is even considered. Let’s face it, some of the great female creatives now curated in museums across the world, were patted politely on the head, or treated with open contempt by men and some culpable women.

In 1938, designer Eileen Gray suffered an act of ‘naked phallocracy’ by Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris) and if you want to know more about that fabulous term, unrecognised by any spell-check, and the convoluted relationship of Gray and Charlie, explore the feature articles online by Rowan Moore on Eileen Gray’s house, E-1027.