E 1027 De Eileen Gray

The villa is called e 1027.

E 1027 de eileen gray. The name of the house e 1027 sounds impersonal there is a resulting numerical code. Le site web officiel de la villa e1027 eileen gray du cabanon des unités de camping de le corbusier et de l etoile de mer. After the war le corbusier continued to stalk the house writing eileen gray out of history by spreading the false information that it was badovici who was the true builder. By this point she was a respected furniture designer but had grown tired of designing the fancy interiors of other people s houses.

Eileen gray would be spinning in her grave at père lachaise if she could see her first and best house as it is today. 1027 and used le corbusier s murals for target practice. Here furniture and architecture come together and one cannot exist without the other. The architect who had spent her life focus on furniture and interior design incorporated that knowledge into e 1027.

E 1027 gets top billing in the very first issue of l architecture d aujourd hui. In 1929 she completed e 1027 a compact white villa perched on the rocks of roquebrune cap martin looking out to the harbour of monaco. E for eileen 10 for the j of jean as the 10th letter of the alphabet 2 for the b of badovici and 7 for the g of gray. In this case she wanted a table for her new house in roquebrune cap martin that could be used over her knees while sitting or as an occasional side or bedside table.

Eileen gray expérimente une nouvelle architecture sur un site naturel remarquable dominant la baie de roquebrune cap martin au coeur du paysage méditerranéen. In 1930 following the 1929 economic crisis she closes her boutiques jean désert and rue guénégaud. He insisted on living near e. In naming their house e 1027 gray chose a streamlined numerological symbol for her relationship with badovici.

Le corbusier s y lie d amitié avec thomas rebutato propriétaire de l étoile de mer et il y. Eileen gray e1027 1927 eileen gray was always interested in multi functional furniture. 1027 and even built his own small structure nearby. Eileen gray entered the architectural mainframe late in life.

It was built as a summer residence to share with your lover critic jean badovici. E was for eileen the 10 and 2 represented badovici s initials according to their place in the alphabet and the 7 was for g so that gray was in a sense embracing him. She was 48 when she began working on e 1027 her first building. Introduction in late 1920 the architect and designer eileen gray designed and built by the sea e 1027 house which would become a landmark of modern architecture.