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 before reinventing herself as an architect in a field in which she laboured mostly in obscurity. Apart from accolades that greeted her first building, called E-1027 and perversely credited to her mentor Le Corbusier, her pioneering work was done quietly, privately and to her own specifications. But she lived long enough (98 years old) to be re-discovered and acclaimed. Today, with her work commanding extraordinary prices ad attention, her legacy, like its creator, remains elusive, contested and compelling.

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