Wellington
E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea
She built a house for herself. Unfortunately it turned out to be a masterpiece.
Irish designer Eileen Gray builds a refuge on the Côte d‘Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. She names it E.1027, a cryptic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it. Le Corbusier, upon discovering the house, becomes intrigued, obsessed. He later covers the walls with murals and publishes photos of them. Gray describes these paintings as vandalism and demands restitution. He ignores her wishes and instead builds his famous Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day.
A story about the power of female expression, and men’s desire to control it.
Event Details
Date: Tuesday 29 July
Time: 5.30pm - 8.15pm
Location: Embassy Theatre, 10 Kent Terrace, Wellington
CPD and LBP Points
NZRAB Members: 10 CPD points, please enter your NZRAB # below
LBP Members: 2 hours / points elective learning as part of meeting your skills maintenance requirements
ADNZ Members: Please log your attendance directly with ADNZ
Event partners
APL | Armstrong Flooring | ASSA ABLOY Opening Solutions New Zealand | Autex Acoustics | Brickworks NZ | Gerard Roofs | JSC | Kingspan Thermakraft | Laminex | MBP (NZ) Ltd | New Zealand Steel | Resene Paint | Winstone Wallboards
Registration
Registration for this event will open approx 4 weeks prior.