Eyre De Lanux

This book is the first monograph devoted to the American-born interior designer and Art deco furniture designer Eyre de Lanux (1894-1996).
Eyre de Lanux left the US to France in 1918 after his wedding to the French diplomat Pierre Combret de Lanux. The couple met the figures of the literary and artistic world, as Cocteau, Picasso, Matisse, James Joyce, Gertrud Stein and Man Ray.
In 1926, through Eileen Gray, she met Evelyn Wyld and drew geometrical carpets realised by the latter. They exhibited carpets and a monumental table at the Salon d'Automne in 1928. Eyre de Lanux decorated several apartments and houses in Paris, Hammamet or Chicago. She painted and created avant-garde furniture and exhibited at the first Union des artistes modernes (UAM) exhibition in 1930. This book pays tribute to this talented artist still too often underestimated.