The work of Irish designer Mainie Jellett

Furniture designer Eileen Grey, so respected amongst the art and design elite in France, and who became almost a household name there, was relatively unknown and under-appreciated here in Ireland until recent years, as was her contemporary, the Irish modernist artist, Mainie Jellet.

While Jellett’s work is now an essential part of the study of Irish art, what is less known about her is the contribution she made to design for the domestic environment.