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e1027@sandrageringinc.com |
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ARCHITECTURE | Residential buildings
Detached, semi-detached houses and villas
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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS | Landscape architecture
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1926 - 1929
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1926 - 1929 |
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Patrimoine du XXe siècle
République Française
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Monuments historiques
République Française
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THE BUILDING IN CINEMA |
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| Orla Brady, Vincent Perez, Francesco Scianna, Alanis Morissette, Dominique Pinon, Elsa Zylberstein, Anne Lambton, David Herlihy |
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Protagonist
Eileen Gray designed and built this first-ever modernist house in Roquebrune- Cap-Martin, France in 1926 for her lover, the architectural journalist Jean Badovici. Le Corbusier, the architect he promoted, so effaced and defaced Gray’s moral right to be recognised as the author of her work that her legacy as one of the most influential inspirations of a century of modern architecture and design was consigned to oblivion for almost a century.
After the Second World War, Jean Badovici made some feeble efforts to request that Le Corbusier remove the vandalistic murals he had painted on its plain white walls, and even promised Eileen Gray that he would put the house back into her name. Le Corbusier was having none of it however, and sadly Jean Badovici died intestate, leaving the fate the ownership of the house to the whims of Le Corbusier, who in turn drowned on his daily swim in the Mediterranean below it. Eileen Gray survived them all and was finally made a fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland in recognition of this work in 1995.
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LOGLINE
 A triangular tale of insidious chauvinism, The Price of Desire explores how the remarkable Irish designer and architect, Eileen Gray’s relationships with Le Corbusier and his promoter Jean Badovici cost her the right to be credited for one of the most influential pieces of 20th century modern architecture.
SYNOPSIS
The Price Of Desire is the controversial story of how the bisexual Irish artist’s Eileen Gray’s influential contribution to 20th century architecture and design was almost wiped from history by the egotistical ‘Father of Modernism’, Le Corbusier. The film unfolds how her relationship with philanderer Jean Badovici, editor of influential L’Architecture Vivante, and the man who made Le Corbusier famous, further fuelled the rift between the two architects, and consigned her legacy to a century of neglect and long- overdue recognition.
Set substantially on the Côte d’Azur in and around her most abiding work, the villa e1027, The Price of Desire explores the events surrounding Le Corbusier’s eventual erasure of both Gray’s physical ownership of the property as well as her intellectual property right to be recognised as the architect of her work.
A triangular tale of insidious chauvinism, The Price of Desire resonates as a universal female experience while cinematically evoking the essential aesthetic of Eileen Gray. |
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BIBILIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES |
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| Tim Benton, "E-1027 and the Drôle de Guerre", AA Files 74, 2017, pp. 123-143 |
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| Anthony Flint, "Restoring Eileen Gray’s E-1027", Architect 8/2016, august 2016, pp. 69-77 |
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Architese 2-2016, [Bildungslandschaften], juni-august/june-augist 2016
Beatriz Colomina, "A house of ill Repute: E.1027", in Architektur, die [fem.], Baukultur ist auch weiblich!, pp. 22-27
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| Andrew Ballantyne, “The unit of survival“, ARQ Architectural Research Quarterly 20, march 2016 pp. 39-44 |
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| Hans Hartje, "E-1027: ein Haus am Mittelmeer / E-1027: a house on the Mediterranean", Architektur.aktuell 427 [Urban Elements], oktober/october 2015, pp. 14, 16 |
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