A House is a machine for memory: Restoring Eileen Gray?s E.1027
The oral history of the legendary modernist building, its reopening, and the controversy that remains to this day Nearly a century since its completion, Eileen Gray's peerless E.1027 villa seems in motion while at rest. With a daring streamlined shape akin to a ship's prow, the home seemingly slices into the Atlantic waters off Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, from its perch on the coast. It also continues to point forward.
Completed in 1929, the concrete cube is an uplifting vision of modern living, a unified artistic statement from an often-overlooked Irish architect and designer. Gray's vision encompasses everything from the overall site plan to the smallest detail of every shelf. After decades of neglect and disrepair, the modernist icon only recently reopened for public tours. One critic compared the thrill of visiting E.1027 to that experienced by "Howard Carter when he entered Tutankhamun's tomb." A thoroughly modern woman created this paragon of modern design. Born into an aristocratic Irish family in 1878, Gray defied Victorian expectations by moving to Paris in 1907. She ran with a fast crowd, one which exemplified the kinetic energy of the French capital in the 1920s and '30s, all while running her own design studio doing high-end furniture and lacquer work, an art form she learned from a Japanese master. Gray drove an ambulance during World War I, went ballooning with Charles Rolls of Rolls-Royce, and dated whom she wanted, included nightclub singe...
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