E.1027 - Eileen Gray und das Haus am Meer

In 1929, Irish designer Eileen Gray built a retreat on the Côte d'Azur. Her first house was a discreet, avant-garde masterpiece. She named it E.1027, a cryptic combination of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it. When Le Corbusier discovered the house, he was fascinated and obsessed. Later, he covered the walls with murals and published photos of them. Gray called these paintings vandalism and demanded they be removed. He ignored her request and instead built his famous Le Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which to this day dominates the narrative of the place. A story about the power of female expression and men’s desire to control it

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