Monthly Archives: February 2014

VILLA E.1027 REDUX

Posted February 22, 2014. Filed in Eileen Gray, Le Corbusier, Moderne, Modernism

“The biggest secret of E.1027 is that it offers spaces for secrets, having layers of interiors within its interiors.” –Katarina Bonnevier Villa E.1027, Eileen Gray’s modernist 1929 villa in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera, opens to the public with great fanfare thanks to a complete seven-year renovation made possible by the Friends of E.1027 and […]

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ROMANCING THE TABLE

Posted February 13, 2014. Filed in Alidad, Andrew F. Tauber, Axel Vervoordt, Bruno de Caumont, Craig Wright, David Hicks, Dining Rooms, Fisher-Wiseman, François Catroux, Geoffrey Bennison, Hubert de Givenchy, Kalef Alaton, Manuel Canovas, Miles Redd, Nicholas Haslam, Thomas Britt

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day. Have you booked that enviable cozy banquette set into a discreet niche in your city’s most romantic restaurant? If not, sorry Charlie, you’re too late! At this point in time you will be lucky to score a booth at Applebee’s, which in all directness won’t score the points you’re aiming for. […]

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