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Eileen Gray - Villa E-1027

Sure you have heard about Eileen Gray’s Villa  E-1027. A modern architectural masterpiece that Le Corbusier couldn’t overcome. Eileen Gray practicing was full of ideas in that time were still new, her innovative design was to create_ as she said_ “a dwelling as a living organism” and the main idea aimed to get a home which grows from its furniture.  

One curious thing you’ll see on the images above, is how the bed is the central piece of the living-room, and from which all furniture and finishes were designed by her accurately. She created a number of pieces of loose and built-in furniture. The storage became integrated with instalations, as the electrical fittings or radiators, the built-in furniture had different openings some loose furniture with adjustable heights and so on. 

Such thinking expanded into the building, like the shutters allowing complex modulations of shadow and breeze or the small windows located to allow a view when lying down. Every detail in this house is architectural poetry, but those Corbu’s murals destroyed her esence but remains a proof of Corbu’s most obsesive personality and vanity. He adored this house

For some reason Gray was contrary to Corbusier, Eileen defended “a house is not a machine to live in. It is the shell of man, his extension, his release, his emanation” As some famous architectural critics said, “Eileen Gray brought essential qualities into building that other modernists lacked ”, RM.

Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray (9 August 1878 – 31 October 1976) was an Irish furniture designer and architect a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. 

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Adamo Faiden - Bonpland 2171 building, Buenos Aires 2018. Photos © Javier Agustín Rojas.

Décorations murales du Bauhaus de Weimar / Wall decorations of the Bauhaus in Weimar Joost Schmidt (Haut / Top) Relief de l'entrée / Relief in the entrance, Plâtre et verre / Plaster and glass Oskar Schlemmer (Bas / Bottom) Relief dans le bâtiment des ateliers / Relief in the workshops building, Plâtre / Plaster 1923

Parti Communiste Français Headquarters, Paris, France.

(Arch. Oscar Niemeyer, Jean Deroche, Paul Chemetov, Jean-Maur Lyonnet & Jean Prouvé, 1965-80)