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Villa E.1027
by Eileen Gray in Ruins
Recently some architectural magazine in The Netherlands published a cry
of distress by Herman and Hans Hertzberger. During a visit this summer
to Eileen Gray's Villa E.1027 they saw the Villa in a deplorable state.
The objective of their SOS is to let the world know about this disaster
in the making. They hope that The Villa's fate can still be turned.
Last september the
fifth DOCOMOMO congress accepted a resolution.
In it the owners of the villa and French authorities responsible for their
cultural heritage are called upon to save the villa from further neglect.
ArchiNed wants to support
Herman and Hans Hertzberger's campaign by opening a protest guestbook.
The appeal for help, including pictures of the current state of the villa
can be found here.
Eileen Gray (1878-1976) worked together with Jean Badovici on the design
and building of the villa from 1924 until 1929. She regarded the villa
in Roquebrune as a prototype, a researchproject on modern living. She
succeed in this because Villa E.1027 is considered as one of the main
examples of optimistic modernism.
Most of the furniture in the villa was special designed for it by Gray.
The mural is by Le Corbusier and date from 1938.
More information on Eileen Gray and Villa E.1027 can be found at the following
websites:
Irish Architecture
Online
Entourage
Productions
Ilinx
Design
Boulevard Magazine
Wolkenkuckkucksheim
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