Archinect - News2024-05-02T17:00:27-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150283675/an-artist-is-honoring-eileen-gray-s-iconic-e1027-villa-with-a-new-research-intensive-exhibition
An artist is honoring Eileen Gray’s iconic E1027 villa with a new research-intensive exhibition Josh Niland2021-10-01T19:04:00-04:00>2021-10-10T06:54:38-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/01/0181f0760453b856e8afb73d14a09d59.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Situated on the French Riviera, about a 30-minute drive east of Nice, the graceful 1929 villa was originally designed by architect Eileen Gray as a retreat for her and her lover, critic Jean Badovici. Over the course of its nearly century-long life, it has borne witness to one naked starchitect vandal, one world war, various drug-fueled orgies and a murder.</p></em><br /><br /><p>The original 1929 villa reopened in August after a five-year-long restoration effort led by the French Association Cap Moderne. The house was the site of a 1996 murder in addition to several other <a href="https://metropolismag.com/viewpoints/e1027-villa-eileen-gray-crowdfund-preservation/" target="_blank">sordid affairs</a> and <a href="https://www.elledecor.com/it/best-of/a29023604/eileen-gray-villa-e-1027-le-corbusier/" target="_blank">outré episodes</a> that have helped create a rather useful mythology surrounding Gray’s modernist icon. Artist Kim Schoenstadt incorporated three year’s worth of research into the home and its architect, whom many now count as an <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/576021/eileen-gray-bard-graduate-center/" target="_blank">unheralded icon</a> of the International Style. </p>
<p>“Gray wasn’t forgotten, but the way she was written about and the way her work was dismissed — that’s an important discussion to have with students,” curator Julie Joyce told the <em>LA Times</em>.</p>
<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTU9QaElkHv/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank"> View this post on Instagram </a><a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CTU9QaElkHv/?utm_source=ig_embed&utm_campaign=loading" target="_blank">A post shared by ArtCenter Exhibitions (@artcenterexhibitions)</a><br><p>The exhibition will be on view until February 27th at the <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/1893/artcenter-college-of-design" target="_blank">ArtCenter College of Design</a>’s Mullin Gallery in Pasadena. The <em>Times</em>’ Carolina Miranda has more on the house’s inspirational backstory <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-09-22/artist-kim-schoenstadt-honors-eileen-gray-e-1027-house" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>...
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Eileen Gray’s E1027 masterpiece reopens to the public today Alexander Walter2015-05-04T13:28:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/a2/a2bd119b9764e6c87eee3cf1dc6a2f8c?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>This modernist villa on the Côte d’Azur, designed by Irish architect Eileen Gray, has witnessed wartime shootings, murder and vandalism by Le Corbusier. Now, at last, it has been brought back to life [...]
Le Corbusier visited and, apparently outraged that a woman could have made such a significant work in a style he considered his own, assaulted it with a series of garish and ugly wall paintings, which he chose to execute completely naked.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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