Vintage Modern Black Curved Waterfall Bench in Style of Eileen Gray

Description

Modern black acrylic lacquered bench with a faux copper effect on sides. Possibly lacquer over leather. This bench is in … more Modern black acrylic lacquered bench with a faux copper effect on sides. Possibly lacquer over leather. This bench is in the style of Eileen Gray. No makers mark.

Dimensions
approximately H 20 x W 30 x D 15 3/4 inches

Acquired at an auction. Formerly property of the Ginny Williams collection.
Ginny Williams was a gallery owner and significant player in Denver’s art world in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, serving on the boards of the Guggenheim in New York and the Hirschhorn in Washington, D.C. She owned the Ginny William Art Gallery in Cherry Creek and was also deeply involved with the Denver Art Museum.

About Eileen Gray
Eileen Gray style lacquer bench curve.
The Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray studied the art of Japanese lacquer working in Paris with Seizo Sugarawa. Sugarawa was a Japanese artisan who had come to Paris to repair lacquer work exhibited in the Exposition Universelle of 1900. Gray became one of the first Westerners to work with true East Asian lacquer. She applied the traditional technique to her own contemporary furniture designs. Eileen Gray created then some among the very best pieces of furniture of the Art Deco period. less