Seizo Sugawara, Eileen Gray’s Enduring Collaborator
A Virtual Event with Ruth Starr and Emma Cormack
Thursday, November 12, 2020
12 pm
Pay What You Wish; Free for Members
This presentation will consider influence of the Japanese sculptor and lacquer specialist, Seizo Sugawara (1884 – 1937) on Eileen Gray (1878 – 1976) in the context of the pervasiveness of Japonisme. Gray is best known for her pioneering work in early modernist architecture. Less well known is her acclaimed earlier career as a lacquer furniture designer. The presentation reveals Gray’s fine appreciation of the unique characteristics of Japanese lacquer.
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