In the 1920s, Eileen Gray experimented with variations on her design of the Adjustable Table E 1027. Just as she transformed the look of the table with a black metal plate as an alternative to the crystal glass plate, she also chose black as the color for the frame. The matt black of the paintwork highlights the lines and shape particularly clearly - a design that she found very elegant. In the 1970s, Eileen Gray and Zeev Aram developed their Adjustable Table E 1027 to production readiness and, together with Aram, initially opted for the chrome-plated version, with the understanding that the table with a black frame would be introduced at a later date.
