"J'ai toujours aimé l'architecture. Plus que tout" reflected Eileen Gray in 1973, 'I've always loved architecture. More than anything", continuing, 'but I didn't think I was capable of it'.1 A capability her first major project, the villa E.1027 at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on France's Côte d’Azur, tended and tends to underscore she needn't have doubted. If a capability that over the decades has oft been as concealed and inaccessible as E.1027. With the film E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by
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One of the reasons we never pursued a career as film reviewers is that writing in the dark is so difficult. Compared to those notes that we write in darkened cinemas the Rosetta Stone appears as if it was set in Helvetica 8. And so it is that from our trip to "Objectified" at the IFC Centre in New York, the only words we can clearly read are "organic popcorn". It was, and it was lovely. Fortunately we know people who can read our hand writing and they have now finished the translation
read moreWhen we were over in New York we took an evening off from partying to view Objectified, Gary Hustwit's new documentary film. Or better said we left the moooi store opening party early to view Objectified. We are planning on doing a detailed review in our new series "smow design spring: Review" However, we just received information over the (smow)twitter that Objectified have confirmed dates in Copenhagen on 29.06, Munich on 01.07 and Amsterdam on 02.07 Exact details will be confirmed on the
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