Spanning the entirety of Egg Collective’s Tribeca Gallery, the fourth exhibition in the company’s renowned Designing Women series, Designing Women IV: Eileen Gray’s House for Two Sculptors, opens to the public in May of 2024. The exhibition documents the results of Egg Collective’s efforts to digitally realize an un-built work of architecture by Eileen Gray, the House for Two Sculptors (ca 1933). Vignettes inspired by both the House for Two Sculptors and Eileen Gray’s aesthetic are presented alongside designs by Egg Collective and artworks by two contemporary sculptors: Taylor Kibby and Molly Haynes. While the artists who originally commissioned Eileen Gray to design the House for Two Sculptors remain unknown, the works on display by Kibby and Haynes enter the void, fulfilling the home’s original program from ninety years prior.

As friends and colleagues, Molly Haynes and Taylor Kibby’s artistic practices are linked. Like Eileen Gray, Kibby and Haynes celebrate materiality and craft through their work. Precise and methodical actions such as weaving, rolling, braiding, and beading are used to transform fiber, clay, thread and glass into sumptuous forms that drape and unfurl. Their work blurs the boundaries of solid and fluid, masculine and feminine, structure and relaxed. Like the lacquer screens Eileen Gray is now famous for, their artworks both highlight and conceal, dividing up and layering space in order to draw in the viewer. Also like Gray, their artworks are highly personal and sensual; resisting classification each is a celebration of the human search for knowledge and expression.