{"id":80360,"date":"2020-07-20T17:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T16:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=80360"},"modified":"2020-08-19T14:25:49","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T13:25:49","slug":"__trashed-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=80360","title":{"rendered":"Building the Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Although big names such as Zaha Hadid<\/a> are well-known and respected among the world of architecture when delving deeper, a common theme begins to develop throughout this history; a lack of notoriety and recognition for many valuable contributions. From interiors and furniture design surrounding the modernist movement, through to the new wave technological advances influencing cityscapes and advancing the world of science, here is a timeline of some influential names, events, snubs and scandals, and how they\u2019ve shaped architecture today<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The best place to begin is, fast-forwarding to 2009, a small, 24-inch brown leather armchair that was sold at Christie\u2019s Auction House for \u00a319.4 million. Although this was record-setting as the highest price for a 20th-century piece of furniture, many were unaware of the designer, even when told her name \u2013 Eileen Gray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shut out of networks, apprenticeships and the chances of mentorships, Gray\u2019s resilience meant she paved her own path by training under a young Japanese craftsman in the art of lacquer, working with chemicals so dangerous that they actually made her sick. However, through this passion and determination, the beginning of an understated legacy began. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

She was commissioned to decorate a fashionable Parisian apartment, which was filled with hundreds of small rectangular lacquered panels, surrounded by key furniture pieces, and most notably the \u2018canoe sofa\u2019- a Pirogue daybed, indeed shaped like its namesake, finished in brown lacquer. Despite being hailed as a triumph of modern luxe living, she was yet to gain notoriety within the field, while her male peers were steadily becoming incredibly well-known and popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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