An exhibition of iconic 20th Century designer Eileen Gray at the Bard Graduate Center includes drawings and objects and alas got short circuited by the pandemic. The image of her in the slideshow by photographer Berenice Abbott is only one view of this chameleon-like talent who although faithful to the clean lines of Le Corbusier (like Charlotte Perriand) very much went her own way. Still, you can see things online and if we are lucky, the show will still be up when things begin to open. The Bard Graduate Center is small but always has wonderfully curated design shows but this exhibition began at the Centre Pompidou.

Photo credits:

Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici, E 1027, Au Cap Martin Roquebrune, 1926-29 from L’Architecture Vivante, no. 26 (Winter 1929), Paris: Éditions Albert Morancé, page 32. Centre Pompidou, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Paris. Fonds Eileen Gray

Berenice Abbott. Portrait of Eileen Gray, 1926. Silver gelatin print. National Museum of Ireland, NMIEG, 2003.569