Gray Matters

Gray Matters (2016)

The Eileen Gray Documentary

Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the 20th century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought after designer and decorator in the next before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she laboured largely in obscurity. Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building –persistently and perversely credited to her mentor–her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications. But she lived long enough (98) to be re-discovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested and compelling.

Date of release
2016-05-27
Runtime
1h 16m
Genres
Documentary
Director
Marco Orsini

Casting

Interesting facts

Gray Matters is a 2014 documentary film that was written and directed by Marco Orsini. It premiered at the Architecture and Design Film Festival on 15 October 2014 in New York City and received a theatrical release on 28 May 2016. The film explores the life of architect and designer Eileen Gray.

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