Biography of saint eileen gray

Irish designer, best known in the 1920s for her lacquerwork, and pioneering architect, whose work achieved belated recognition during the final years of her life. Born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith (her surname was changed to Gray following her mother's inheritance of the Scottish title of Baroness Gray) on August 9, 1878, at Brownswood, Enniscorthy, Ireland; died in Paris, France, on October 31, 1976; daughter of James Maclaren Smith (an artist) and Eveleen (Pounden) Smith; educated at home and at private schools abroad; studied art at the Slade School of Fine Arts, London, and at the École Colarossi and the Académie Julian, Paris; never married; no children.

Settled in Paris (1902); began to study the craft of lacquer under Charles in London and Sougawara in Paris (1907); exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs (1913); received her first commissions from Jacques Doucet (1914); commissioned to redecorate and furnish Mme Mathieu-Lévy's Paris ap