Restoring Eileen Gray’s Villa E-1027 and Clarifying the Controversies
Tim Benton on Eileen Gray’s Tour de Force
Iconic Houses’ 2018 Lecture Tour focused on Eileen Gray's epochal Villa E-1027 and was held in five venues in four European countries. Professor emeritus Tim Benton discusses the restoration of the furniture and the various controversies that have coloured the way the house and its contents have been understood. After many years of struggle to get the restoration and management of Villa E-1027 on track, Eileen Gray’s tour de force is open to the public and a member of the Iconic Houses Network since 2015. Following to the lecture a film by Vincent Cattaneo was screened that documents the restoration work carried out by the Association Cap Moderne between 2015 and 2017.
The lecture was organized by the Iconic Houses Network in cooperation with:
• National Museum and held at Villa Stenersen in Oslo, Norway, 9 October 2018
• Ungers Archive for Architectural Studies and held at the Wallraf-Richartz Museum in Cologne, Germany, 10 October 2018
• Sonneveld House and held at Het Nieuwe Instituut during Thursday Night Live! in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 11 October 2018
• Villa Müller/The City of Prague Museum in Prague, and held at its Study and Documentation Center in Prague, Czech Republic, 15 October 2018
• Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic, 16 October 2018
Video: Dirk de Graaff, commissioned by Het Nieuwe Instituut
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