The Story of Eileen Gray Roquebrune Dining Chair

The Roquebrune Dining Chair was born in the 1930s. It was designed by the legendary Irish female designer Eileen Gray. It is a very famous furniture design work in the 20th century.

The design of this Modern Dining Chair is simple yet elegant. The graceful lines of the chair back are reminiscent of elegant women's corsets, especially the unique drawstring design of the chair back, which gives this chair a light and charming temperament. Like a lovely and elegant girl, fascinating and forgetting time. It has become a fashion essential for contemporary homes.

Eileen Gray, an Irish-born design master, was born into an Irish aristocratic family. She spent her childhood and youth at her father's family estate in Ireland and partly in her mother's hometown of London, England. Her father also loved painting and art, and her artistic enlightenment was largely due to her father. In 1898, Eileen Gray completed four years of professional study at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. During her studies, Gray enjoyed visiting the South Kensington Museum alone. Museum), which exposed her to many Eastern artworks.

Eileen Gray designed a very comfortable chair with a spacious seating surface for the terrace of her second home in Castellar. The Leather Dining Chair was covered with blue canvas, and later another version was created, this one used in-house, they are identical in lines but finished in leather. Thus, the Roquebrune dining chair, another design classic from the 1930s, was born.