E 1027 Villa

It was in 1924 that with her lover jean badovici architect and critic that she began working on the construction of e 1027 on a steep cliff overlooking the mediterranean at roquebrune near monaco.

E 1027 villa. 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. Gray lifted the house on an isolated stretch of the riviera on the west side of cap martin overlooking the bay of monaco. It is tantamount to a manifesto both for its architecture and for the fixed and free standing furniture lamps and decorations that are inseparable from it. E 1027 is a modernist villa in roquebrune cap martin in the alpes maritimes department of france.

On a hill overlooking the mediterranean in roquebrune cap martin france eileen gray built the e 1027 home to share with her lover the critic jean badovici. It was conceived as a little refuge to enjoy the sun the sea and the company of friends. Villa e 1027 eileen gray s masterpiece defaced by le corbusier in 1926 eileen gray an early pioneer of modernism designed a villa in the french riviera in an act of love and extraordinary innovation. Camping style allowed for the transformable room the very definition of functionalism.

A veritable icon of modernist architecture villa e 1027 eileen gray s first architectural creation testifies to the thought and attention that she put into every detail of the design. Completed in 1929 architect eileen gray s unique vision for interior design. Previously a ruin a new crowdfunding campaign aims to continue its restoration. It was designed and built from 1926 29 by the irish architect and furniture designer eileen gray.

Completed in 1929 e 1027 was the first. Modernist villa e 1027 nestled into the coastline of cap martin in the south of france was not only ahead of its time architecturally. 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. Eileen gray s most iconic work is arguably e 1027 villa.

A modernist villa on the south coast of france which was designed by eileen grayand lived in by le corbusier is captured in these photos by manuel bougot.