Eileen Gray; A house under the sun - Charlotte Malterre-Barthes, Zosia Dzierzawska

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In 1965, a tragedy takes place on the beach of Roquebrune-Cap-Martin: a man is found drowned in front of his home. It is about Le Corbusier, famous French architect and painter, owner of a sumptuous house on the seashore. This house is the villa E-1027, and contrary to what everyone thinks, it was created by a woman: Eileen Gray. The daughter of an Irishman, Eileen arrived in London to learn the techniques of lacquerware.

Determined to make her own way in the artistic world, she opened a gallery of interior design in Paris and met Jean Badovici, an architect who was fascinated by the young woman's talent. With him, Eileen's thoughts on art and architecture developed and slowly took shape, culminating in the work of a lifetime: the villa E-1027. But when one creates such an intimate work, it is to be expected that some may not be able to grasp its complexity...

With poetry, sweetness and bitterness, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes and Zosia Dzierzawska take us into the heart of this artist's life and give back her letters of nobility to a woman who has remained in the shadow of her male colleagues for far too long.

About the authors :

Charlotte Malterre-Barthes is an architect, urban planner and researcher. She is the director of the OMNIBUS architecture firm and teaches at the Department of Architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ), where she received her doctorate. Co-curator of the 10th Architecture Biennial of São Paulo, she co-authored Housing Cairo: The Informal Response and Cairo Desert Cities. She is a founding member of the Parity Group, an association that aims to promote gender equality in architecture.

Zosia Dzierzawska is an illustrator and comic book writer who inherited a passion for architecture from her urbanist father. She is also one of the co-founders of Studio Armad'illo, an illustration and graphic design studio based in Milan. She works for various international publishers and uses her soft and expressive line for children's books, comics and editorial illustrations.
Her work has been honored twice at the Bologna Children's Book Fair Illustrators Exhibition and by the New York Society of Illustrators.