Eileen Gray Villa E 1027

The name of the house is a reference to their names e stands for eileen while 10 2 and 7.

Eileen gray villa e 1027. Eileen gray s first foray into designing a stand alone home is a masterwork that sits elegantly in its location overlooking the mediterranean. The villa e 1027 was not only eileen grays s first building to be erected but also her masterpiece. The name of the house e 1027 sounds impersonal there is a resulting numerical code. Previously a ruin a new crowdfunding campaign aims to continue its restoration.

Brilliant but unassuming female designer from paris builds an elegant minimalist villa on the shores of the mediterranean and boorish male architect takes it over. The sordid saga of eileen gray s iconic e 1027 house designed by the irish architect and designer the 1929 french riviera villa was an obsession of le corbusier. Fabled modernist french villa e1027 designed by irish architect eileen gray has witnessed wartime shootings murder and vandalism by le corbusier. In 1930 following the 1929 economic crisis she closes her boutiques jean désert and rue guénégaud.

Recently restored e 1027 was designed as a holiday home for gray a furniture and interior designer and her lover and collaborator jean badovici. The villa e 1027 stands on a rocky slope few meters above sea level. Her former home e 1027 overlooking the shores of roquebrune cap martin is considered an architectural masterpiece and a piece of ireland in france. The villa is called e 1027.

When seen from the water one can easily link it with the marine landscape due to its shape and colour and even imagine it as a stranded ship. Now at last it has been brought back to life. Manuel bougot eileen gray s e 1027 villa in roquebrune cap martin france. Gray designed e 1027 in collaboration with her partner romanian architect and critic jean badovici.

Architecture has its legends and the one based in roquebrune cap martin along the côte d azur is a pretty good one. It was built as a summer residence to share with your lover critic jean badovici. E 1027 is a modernist villa in roquebrune cap martin in the alpes maritimes department of france it was designed and built from 1926 29 by the irish architect and furniture designer eileen gray l shaped and flat roofed with floor to ceiling windows and a spiral stairway to the guest room e 1027 was both open and compact.