Evolving from painter to lacquer artist, interior and mid century modern furniture designer to architect, Eileen Gray (1878-1976) continually broadened her artistic horizons. Born into a wealthy Scottish-Irish family near Enniscorthy, Gray studied painting at London’s Slade School of Art. Moving to Paris in 1900, she soon became fascinated by the art of lacquer and began learning its intricacies under Japanese artist Seizo Sugawara. She held her first exhibition of Eileen Gray furniture in 1913 and received a commission from art collector Jacques Doucet for his Paris apartment. The interiors she designed for another apartment on Rue de Lota also earned her recognition. In 1922 Gray opened Galerie Jean Desert to display and sell her work. Encouraged by fellow designers like Le Corbusier, she turned her focus to architecture. In 1924 she and architecture critic Jean Badovici collaborated to build and decorate a sea-facing house at Roquebrune near Monaco. Some of the living room furniture such as living room side table she designed for house E-1027 is still selling around the world. Though she earned sporadic acclaim through her career, Gray was never as widely accepted as her male contemporaries. Only in 1968 did her popularity soar when her works from Jacques Doucet’s apartment were auctioned