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Following her father’s death in 1900, Eileen Gray moved to Paris with friends and continued her education. Gray remained powerfully independent during her career, at a time when her contemporaries, who were almost all male, mostly regarded themselves as members of one movement or another. Gray spent most of her childhood living in family homes, either in Ireland or South Kensington in London. In Paris, she studied drawing, painting and, drawn to the austerity of the material, the techniques of lacquer. Through a simple rotation of the eileen gray table top, one has either a low or a high table according to one’s desire.