Iconic furniture often begins with a backstory. For example, Irish designer and architect Eileen Gray’s cliffside villa in ...

Art & Exhibitions How Eileen Gray, the ‘Mother of Modernism,’ Navigated a Postwar World That Did Not Look Kindly Upon Women Architects. A new show in New York tells her daring story through ...

A feature film by Beatrice Minger and Christopher Schaub, “E.1027 — Eileen Gray and the House By the Sea” is a strange creature, being the story of an Irish designer and architect told through ...

After Gray and Badovici split in 1932, Badovici inherited the house and often stayed there with his wife. Against Gray’s wishes, Le Corbusier, as Bodovici’s guest, painted murals on the walls.

After six years of renovations by the Cap Moderne Association, Eileen Gray's modernist masterpiece, E-1027, is finally open again. ... sourcing building materials in use in the 1920s, ...