The Legendary and Enigmatic Eileen Gray
In the early 1920s, the Romanian architect Jean Badovici encouraged Eileen Gray to move beyond furniture design and take up architecture. This she duly did and proceeded to design a summer villa for Badovici near Saint Tropez in the South of France. The name of the villa, E-1027 is a cipher for the two architects’ intertwined initials. Le Corbusier, considered the greatest architect of the 20th Century, was obsessed and haunted by E-1027.
