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Le Corbusier's strange obsession with E.1027 Villa Savoye. Instant Architect
The Five Points of a New Architecture
Furniture
Le Corbusier's strange obsession with E.1027 Eileen Gray designed and built the villa known as E.1027 as a vacation home on an isolated stretch of the French Riviera on the western side of Cap Martin overlooking the Bay of Monaco for her lover, architect and critic Jean Badovici. The home was completed in 1929. The name of the house sounds very impersonal, but it is actually a code for their intertwined names. The E is for Eileen, and the 10 is for J, the tenth letter in the alphabet. The 2 is for B, and the 7 is for G. Both Badovici and Gray knew him, who was considered the most prominent modernist architect of the time. In fact, Le Corbusier had encouraged her work early in her career and had become fascinated with her as a person and an artist. He developed an obsessive interest in E.1027, and in 1938 he entered the house and painted a series of eight sexual murals on the walls. In the 1952 Le Corbusier built a wooden structure knows as the Cabanon near E.1027, so he could look at the house constantly. When Badovici died in 1956, he built a twostorey hostel overlooking the house. In 1965 Le Corbusier had a heart attack and died while swimming in the waters outside E.1027.
Le Corbusier, his wife and Jean Badovici
Le Corbusier painting one of the murals at E.1027
Le Corbusier and one of the murals
Corbu relaxing at Villa E-1027
For those of you curious about the scar on Le Corbusier's leg, he was injured in 1938 while swimming in Saint-Tropez Bay. He was trapped under a yacht as it passed over him, and the propeller blades cut him badly.
Villa Savoye.
Is a modernist villa in Poissy, in the outskirts of Paris, France. It was designed by Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, and built between 1928 and 1931 using reinforced concrete. A manifesto of Le Corbusier's "five points" of new architecture, the villa is representative of the bases of modern architecture. The house was originally built as a country retreat on behest of the Savoye family. During WWII the Jewish Savoye family was sent to concentration camps by the Nazis who took over the house and used it for storage. After being purchased by the neighbouring school it passed on to be property of the French state in 1958, and after surviving several plans of demolition, it was designated as an official French historical monument in 1965
Villa Savoye. Interiors (1931))
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Le Corbusier began experimenting with furniture design in 1928 after inviting the architect, Charlotte Perriand, to join his studio. His cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, also collaborated on many of the designs. Before the arrival of Perriand, Le Corbusier relied on ready-made furniture to furnish his projects, such as the simple pieces manufactured by Thonet, the company that manufactured his designs in the 1930s. Le Corbusier's Furniture is a classic furniture line created by Le Corbusier. The line was introduced in 1928 at the Salon d窶連utumne in Paris by Le Corbusier and his team of designers. He defined human-limb objects as: "Extensions of our limbs and adapted to human functions that are typeneeds and type-functions, therefore type-objects and type-furniture. The human-limb object is a docile servant. A good servant is discreet and selfeffacing in order to leave his master free. Certainly, works of art are tools, beautiful tools. And long live the good taste manifested by choice, subtlety, proportion, and harmony".
Model No. B302 swivel chair, 19281929 Chromed bent tubular steel, leather Design: Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Production: Thonet Frﾃｨres, Austria Reissue: Cassina, Italy
The Le Corbusier group referred to their LC2 and LC3 collections (1928) as "cushion baskets," which they designed as a modernist response to the traditional club chair.
Charlotte Perriand on the B306 Chaise Longue, 1928 Chromed bent tubular steel, leather Design: Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Edouard Jeanneret Production: Thonet Freres, Austria Reissue: Cassina, Italy
Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa Facultad de Arquitectura
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