Completed in 1929, the concrete cube is a vision of modern living. Eileen Gray designed the house as a vacation getaway for her, then lover, Romanian architect Jean Badovici. Le Crobusier was Badovici friend and later defended the house by placing his artwork in there.
E1027 was the first architectural work of the designer Eileen Gray, completed when she was 51 years old. It was a pioneering and accomplished work of the modern movement in architecture, putting into practice ideas that were still new.
The organisation of the house as a whole is then based on her studies of wind and sun, and on its position on a steep slope descending to the sea.
The basic form of the house is a simple cuboid, raised on pillars, but within that she created a series of layers that filter the progression from land side to sea side and from shadows to light.
She created a number of pieces of loose and built-in furniture for the house and installed others that she had previously designed, always with close attention to their interaction with the senses and the human body. She created a tea trolley with a cork surface, to reduce the rattling of cups, another trolley for taking a gramophone outside, and the E1027 table, whose height can be adjusted to suit different situations.
Le corbusier visited the house couple time when Bodovici and Gray parted and while staying at the house he painted bright murals on its plain white walls, and sometimes painted in the nude. Gray considered it as a vandalism. Because she though that he „painted over“ her work for the sake of jealousy. As he was seeing his own approch in architecture. „Le Corbusier was „seemingly affronted that a woman could create such a fine work of modernism“ so he „asserted his dominion, like a urinating dog, over the territory“„. He built the house next to it and swam in the waters where he later drawned. After his death the the whole area was declared a „Site Moderne,“ Today, E-1027 is recognized as the founding element of this site. Furthermore, Eleen Gray wasnt promoting herself during her professional life as an architect, so for many years historians and journalist assumed that is was work by Le Corbusier.
Today, E-1027 is after restoration and is open to public and has been preserved thatnks to Le Corbusier`s paintings.
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