CULTURE

Photos: The Architect of Desire

Eileen Gray designed and built a house for love—and lived to suffer the consequences.


E.1027, 2010
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Eileen Gray, 1926. Courtesy of Berenice Abbott/Getty Images.

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Gray’s 1926 Bibendum chair. Courtesy of Shira Klasmer/Aram Designs ltd.

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E.1027, 2010. Courtesy of Manuel Bougot.

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Gray’s Brick Screen, designed between 1922 and 1925. Courtesy of Nadia Mackenzie/Arcaid/Corbis.

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Gray’s Wendingen rug. Courtesy of Shira Klasmer/Aram Designs ltd.

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Detail of E.1027, 2010. Courtesy of Manuel Bougot.

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Le Corbusier at E.1027, in front of one of his murals. © FLC/ADAGP, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2015.

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Gray’s St. Tropez rug. Courtesy of Shira Klasmer/Aram Designs ltd.

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Gray, at home in Paris, with the E.1027 table, 1927. Courtesy of the National Museum of Ireland.

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A dilapidated E.1027, 1998. Courtesy of Daniel Ryan/the University of Sydney.