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Founded in Paris in 1978 by Andrée Putman, Ecart International was among the first companies dedicated to rediscovering and reissuing the work of overlooked pioneers of early twentieth-century modern design. Through meticulous research and a distinctive curatorial vision, the brand brought iconic creations by designers such as Pierre Chareau, Jean-Michel Frank, Eileen Gray, and Robert Mallet-Stevens back into production, playing a key role in their international revival. Alongside its historic reissues, Ecart International developed collaborations with contemporary designers and its own creative studio, establishing a lasting reputation for timeless modernity, refined craftsmanship, and understated elegance.

Eileen Gray was an Irish designer and architect, as well as a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. Born in Enniscorthy in 1878, she studied drawing and painting in London until she discovered her passion for lacquered furniture in a shop in Soho, which led her to move to Paris in 1907 to study with Seizo Sugawara, a Japanese master of the wood lacquering technique. Driven by her fellow architect Jean Badovici and Le Corbusier, Eileen began studying architecture in 1924: the result was her most emblematic work, Villa E-1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, on the French Riviera.