Green is Ireland’s national colour. Eileen Gray’s native island has lef its mark in many of her paintings
and especially in the Kilkenny carpet. Tat she would “receive something enduring” in the Irish capital
was something the designer had still dreamed of. In 2002, a quarter of a century afer her death, this dream
came true: with the Eileen Gray exhibition in Dublin’s National Museum of Ireland, where the poster for the
opening featured a photo of the Non Conformist Armchair. Green is also the colour of hope, and, with regard
to her painterly works, it never deserted the aged Eileen Gray. She had always hoped that new textile works
of art would once again emerge from “old designs”. A wish that has been fulflled with the Eileen Gray rug
collection by ClassiCon.
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Photos by Eileen Gray, © National Museum of Ireland, Dublin
Text by Charlotte Kerner, author, Lübeck
All Eileen Gray Designs are authorised by The World Licence Holder Aram Designs Ltd, London
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