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Eileen Gray’s modernist 1934 Tempe à Pailla home is for sale in the French Riviera

2024-10-16T10:47:00-04:00

The second-ever built Eileen Gray home design from 1934 has hit the local real estate market in France’s Côte d'Azur region for €3.5 million ($3.87 million USD).

The home is not far away from Gray’s earlier historic E-1027 villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martim and boasts 8 bedrooms with 5 baths. The property has been restored several times after being looted by Nazis during World War II, according to The Spaces. Gray died in 1976 after designing more than 40 buildings. Only two of which – Tempe à Pailla and E-1027 – were ever constructed.

Image: Courtesy of Engel & Völkers

NOARQ creates a curved house for a triangular lot in Portugal

2018-01-23T15:59:00-05:00

A new project titled CASA ED & JO features a clean and curved design by NOARQ. The renovated house is located in Famalicão, Portugal with tucked away patios inside a triangular urban plot.

CASA ED&JO by NOARQ located in Famalicão, Portugal. Image: João Morgado.

The lot is highly exposed due to different topographies between the adjoining streets. For this reason the house is closed on the north side to create more privacy. The house opens up on the east side where light enters the kitchen and the whole of the south facing front is open under a curved shade cover.

CASA ED&JO by NOARQ located in Famalicão, Portugal. Image: João Morgado.

The house consists of two floors rehabilitated from the original structure. The first floor was expanded to preserve the garage, entrance, and vertical access storage area.

CASA ED&JO by NOARQ located in Famalicão, Portugal. Image: João Morgado.

The second floor functions as the main area of the house consisting of open lounging rooms and the more p...

This modern prefab house in Spain boasts only a five hour assembly time

2017-12-28T17:35:00-05:00

It took less than four months to build this modern prefab home in a factory, and only five hours to assemble it on-site. The minimalist modern abode is set in Valdés, a small town in Asturias, northwest of Madrid. Studio [baragaño] designed the Montaña House as a stylistic mix between a traditional home and the granaries found throughout the area.

The house, designed by Studio [baragaño], was constructed in less than four months in a factory in Madrid then transported to Valdes, where a local artisan embellished the structure with a slate roof. This space was designed using traditional residential architecture as inspiration and boasts an impressive on-site assembly time of just five hours.

The house serves as residence for an English landscaper and his family with two levels and plenty of common space. Diffuse natural light is used on the top level with light polycarbonate panels functioning as barriers between rooms. A metal staircase acts as a center piece around which the other spaces were organized. With a strictly minimalist interior, the home's defining feature is its fireplace suspended from the living room ceiling.