Screen

Eileen Gray · 1922

Before you is Screen — a design object by Eileen Gray, nineteen twenty-two. It's lacquered wood and metal rods, about 1.9 by 1.4 meters. You can pick out the grid pattern.

Medium Lacquered wood and metal rods · Dimensions 74 1/2 x 53 1/2 x 3/4" (189.2 x 135.9 x 1.9 cm) · Credit Hector Guimard Fund

Hanging beside it in Gallery 513: Pelouse, Chess Table

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Cubic-Modular Wall Structure, Black, In-text plate (folio 12) from A Pythagorean Notebook, iamb (lateral inhibitions in the perceptual field): Chapter 12, iamb (lateral inhibitions in the perceptual field): Chapter 12

More by Eileen Gray here: Adjustable Table, Extendable Table from E-1027, Chair for the Villa Tempe a Pailla