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.
— theguardian.com
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apparently.... assaulted it
or not, whichever "history" you prefer.
the one i'm familiar with involves mutual admiration and a harmless picasso-wannabe-hobby. Can't we appreciate work anymore without the fake PC narrative or some historical revisionism? The house looks very similar to much of its contemporary international style peers. Whether it is a "masterpiece" should probably be decided by serious scholars, not hacky journalists.
I agree w liighthouse on both counts: the pc narrative and the questionable 'masterpiece' status; its about Ms Gray than the architecture.
Isnt there some saying about only whores and buildings get respect in thier old age...?
that house sucks...
clunky massing, strange formal organization. "masterpiece" is so far overreaching for that project its not even funny.
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