10.8.15

More on Cap Moderne

Le Cabanon :
"I have a chateau on the Côte d'Azur, it measures 3.66 x 3.66 m. 
It's for my wife, it's extravagant in comfort and kindness". 
This is how Le Corbusier described his Cabanon, built in 1952, 
according to the rules of harmonious measurements defined 
in the 'Modular'. He kept up the habit of 'summering' in his 
Cabanon at the seaside until the end of his life in 1965.




Tombe de Le Corbusier


L'Etoile de Mer :
In 1947, Thomas Rebutato bought the small strip of land
next to Gray's Villa. At first he wanted a cabin that he could use
 for his fishing equipment and family picnic, later he transformed
 it into a bistro-restaurant. Le Corbusier painted the murals on
the facade and in the bedroom.



scan and pieces of text information from the Cap Moderne visitor's guide


Les Unités de Camping :
In 1956, Le Corbusier built five holiday units for Rebutato. 
Each unit accommodates two people, is 8m² big and has a 
horizontal T-shaped window, framing the sea-facing landscape.



9.8.15

Finally there, Cap Moderne



















More archival photos of the interior and the site in this earlier post
+ here and here:

Le Corbusier drinking coffee and pastis in Gray's villa in front of his murals.
Photos from 
Eileen Gray: Her Life and Work by Peter Adam.
A view of E.1027 during renovations, with Le Corbusier’s Unités de Camping sited above
+ the bar-restaurant L'Etoile de Mer and Le Cabanon at the right.
Photo from 
Grand Designs, 2011.

Eileen Gray was the first to build upon this rocky plot of land at Roquebrune Cap-Martin. Gray built Vila E-1027 together with her fellow architect and lover, Jean Badovici. According to the visitor's guide, the name intertwines their initials: E is for Eileen, the 10 and the 2 for the tenth and second letters of the alphabet, J and B, and the 7 is for G. Pictures of our visit to the adjacent houses will follow.

8.8.15

Limbs awaken

Lucio Del Pezzo, Re Mida III, 1968
Picasso, Der entlaubte Corrigan (The defoliated corrigan), 1962
Michael Sailstorfer, M.17, 2015 
Tamara Henderson, Atlantic wake of limbs

5.8.15

heiß hier








Pom-Bär Knabbersnack, Pretzel, Apfelschorle, Frische Wurstwaren & the Krumme Lanke lake - Berlin