Eileen Gray's Villa E.1027, Cap Martin, Roquebrune: the principal bedroom, 1929 (RIBA Collections) Eileen Gray’s work was overlooked for much of her lifetime, only becoming more widely recognised in ...

Eileen Gray is 97, and, so she says, finds that she doesn’t work as she used to. She had some chairs to finish, and she wasn’t at all happy – about the lines, of the backs, so perhaps I ...