A retrospective on Irish modernist Eileen Grey in New York City includes furniture that has never been presented before.
The Eileen Gray exhibition on show at a gallery belonging to Bard Graduate Center spans three floors of a former townhouse on New York's Upper West Side.

It is the first in-depth exhibition of Gray in the US since a 1980 exhibit at New York's Museum of Modern Art and is organised in collaboration with the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
Curator Cloé Pitiot of Centre Pompidou created the showcase to cover Gray's career as an artist, furniture designer and architect, which took her from Ireland, London and Paris to the South of France where she built the iconic modernist villa E-1027 in 1929.

Pitiot, who has organised previous shows on Gray's work at Centre Pompidou and at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin, said she wanted this exhibition to stand out. "I didn't want to do the same exhibition," she told Dezeen during the New York opening.
"I wanted to continue my research," Pitiot added. "Because it's smaller here in the graduate centre, I wanted to have new pieces never shown before ? masterpieces."

In total, the exhibition includes 200 works sourced from museums, private collectors and galleries. Tables, paintings and archival materials are among Gray's designs that have not been exhibited before.

Among these is an oak dressing table and coffee table. Pitiot discovered the items in a new drawing that d...