History of the eileen gray table
Eileen Gray was born in 1878, the youngest of five children in a wealthy Scottish-Irish family. Her parents, Eveleen Pounden Gray and James Maclaren Gray were of Scottish/Irish descent. She spent her childhood divided between her family’s homes near the Irish market town of Enniscorthy, County Wexford, and in London’s South Kensington. Gray’s first commission for interior design came in 1919, a project for which she developed her famous lacquered block screens. The eileen gray table top is usually made of a linoleum surface, and it is black on one side and grey on the other, with solid beech wood edging.