E-1027, Eileen Gray's house at Cap-Martin
The modernist villa facing the Mediterranean, and the quarrel with Le Corbusier that nearly erased it. A pioneer at last acknowledged.
1 MIN · 1 OBJECT IDENTIFIEDA white villa set on the rocks of Cap-Martin, facing the sea. E-1027, designed by Eileen Gray in the late 1920s, is at once a modernist masterpiece and the stage for one of the greatest injustices in the history of design.
A house conceived for living
Gray designed everything: the architecture, the furniture (the adjustable E-1027 table, the Bibendum chair, the brick screen), the circulation, the light. A liveable, sensual modernism, against the grain of Corbusian coldness.
The Le Corbusier quarrel
Le Corbusier, fascinated, painted murals on her walls without permission — a gesture long read as an appropriation. Gray was erased from the narratives; the house nearly disappeared.
The rehabilitation
Restored and open to visitors, E-1027 has restored Eileen Gray to her rightful place: one of the very greatest, long rendered invisible because she was a woman.
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