Eileen Gray (1878-1976) was an Irish interior designer and furniture designer. She is considered one of the most important designers of the early 20th Century.

Among her most popular designs is the "E 1027", a side table which in 1987 was included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.

Gray's work is comparable to other modern designers like Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe and her designs are highly coveted by collectors and furniture enthusiasts all over the world.

As the youngest child of the wealthy family of Eileen Gray studied painting at the prestigious Slade School of Fine Arts of University College London in Bloomsbury. But when her father died in 1900, Gray transferred to the Ecole Colarossi and the Academie Julian in Paris. Gray returned to London in 1905 where she learned the art of painting from the Japanese artist Seizo Sugawara.

She had her breakthrough as a furniture designer in 1917 when Mathieu Levy commissioned her to renovate his apartment in the Rue de Lota in Paris.

It was in the Rue de Lota apartment that Gray created some of their best work, including the "block screen" (a painted wall) and the "Bibendum Chair".

When the apartment was completed in 1921, critics called her design "a triumph of modern living."

Gray vanished from the scene during World War II, however, her career experienced a come-back in the 1960s, when an Italian design magazine featured her work and she was brought it back to the public eye.

She died on the 31st of October, 1976.