Our Materials Spotlight series is an intimate gallery program that is part gallery tour, part seminar. Focusing each month on a different material that Eileen Gray used in her work, this program is led by a world expert, who will highlight key aspects of specific works in the Gallery and situation those works in a larger context and lineage.
On Wednesday, March 18, join Christopher Wilk, Keeper of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the Victoria & Albert Museum, as he leads a conversation and tour focusing on Eileen Gray’s metal furniture.
Other Tours in the Series Include:
Wednesday, April 15
Architecture
Led by Caroline Constant
Fiber
Led by Jennifer Goff
Lacquer
Led by Ruth Starr
Christopher Wilk is Keeper of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the V&A. He began his career in the Architecture and Design Department at MoMA and, after a period of free-lance curating and writing, moved to the Decorative Arts Department at the Brooklyn Museum before joining the V&A. In addition to being Chief Curator of the V&A’s British Galleries 1500-1900 he curated the V&A’s Frank Lloyd Wright Gallery (now closed) and conceived the museum’s Dr Susan Weber Furniture Galleries. His major exhibitions have included Marcel Breuer: Furniture and Interiors (MoMA), Modernism: Designing a New World 1914-1939 (V&A) and Plywood: a material story (V&A). In addition to books on Marcel Breuer, Modernism and Plywood, he authored a history of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kaufmann Office and a history of Thonet, and edited and contributed to Western Furniture (V&A) and (with Nick Humphrey) The British Galleries: a study in museology (V&A).
