Championed by a new generation of scholars, artists, and collectors, this iconic artist is at last emerging from the dark side as new light is shed on all aspects of the Eileen Gray phenomenon.

"Gray Matters" explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Eileen Gray, whose uncompromising vision defined and defied the practice of modernism in decoration, design and architecture. Making a reputation with her traditional lacquer work in the first decade of the 20th century, she became a critically acclaimed and sought-after designer and decorator in the next before reinventing herself as an architect, a field in which she labored largely in obscurity. Apart from the accolades that greeted her first building--persistently and perversely credited to her mentor--her pioneering work was done quietly, privately, and to her own specifications. But she lived long enough (98) to be re-discovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices and attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested, and compelling.