User:Jasmine Groves/Eileen Gray

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Gray had many influential teachers at Slate, including Philip Wilson Steer, a Romantic landscape painter, Henry Tonks, a surgeon and figure painter, and Frederick Brown.

The chair's shape is reminiscent of the voluptuous figures of women in renaissance paintings, while the geometry calls back to the ideals of Werkbund. The Pirogue Daybed is a bronze-lacquered day bed inspired by Polynesian dugout canoes.

One of the murals, titled Three Women, is Le Corbusier's response to Gray's use of desire and femininity in her work. The content of the painting (three feminine figures intertwined) could be a reference to Gray's bisexuality.

Many of Gray's plans, architectural notes, and personal papers were destroyed by German soldiers after WWII.

Owners of E-1027 include Marie-Louise Schelbert, a friend of Corbusier's and Heinz Peter Kägi. Architect Renaud Barrés is the current owner.

E-1027 was the setting for many tragedies. In 1965, Le Corbusier died of a heart attack shortly after swimming at the beach located nearby. In 1996, Heinz Peter Kägi, Marie-Louise Schelbert's gynecologist, was stabbed to death during altercation with two men in the living room.