Perched above the water, equidistant from Monaco and Menton, the immaculate Villa E-1027 — the “refuge” Eileen Gray had built for herself in 1929 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (Alpes-Maritimes), with the assistance of Jean Badovici — is a distillation of modernist refinement as much as a carefully crafted dream of inventive hospitality. Owned by the Conservatoire du littoral, the Cap Moderne site, which includes, besides the villa, the former bar-restaurant L’Étoile de Mer run by Thomas Rebutato, Le Corbusier’s Cabanon, and a set of colourful camping units also designed by him, reopens to the public for the summer. It will be closed this winter for a final restoration campaign (ground floor and façade refurbishment), after which its management will be definitively taken over by the Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN)… Read the article
Perched above the water, equidistant from Monaco and Menton, the immaculate Villa E-1027 — the “refuge” Eileen Gray had built for herself in 1929 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (Alpes-Maritimes), with the assistance of Jean Badovici — is a distillation of modernist refinement as much as a carefully crafted dream of inventive hospitality. Owned by the Conservatoire du littoral, the Cap Moderne site, which includes, besides the villa, the former bar-restaurant L’Étoile de Mer run by Thomas Rebutato, Le Corbusier’s Cabanon, and a set of colourful camping units also designed by him, reopens to the public for the summer. It will be closed this winter for a final restoration campaign (ground floor and façade refurbishment), after which its management will be definitively taken over by the Centre des monuments nationaux (CMN)… Read the article
