LE CORBUSIER PAINTER ACAP MARTIN
It was in 1937 that Le Corbusier discovered Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and the villa E-1027. He returned in 1938 and 1939. Impressed by the ingenuity and charm of the villa, he spent pleasant moments facing the sea. and leads a quiet and simple life, in contact with nature. It was in 1937 that Le Corbusier discovered Roquebrune-Cap-Martin and the villa of Jean Badovici E-1027, designed largely by the Irish Eileen Gray between 1927 and 1929.
He returned in 1938 and 1939. Impressed by the ingenuity and charm of the villa, he spent pleasant moments facing the sea and led a quiet and simple life, in contact with nature. There, a few meters from the sea and the guinguette "L'Etoile de Mer" built at the end of the 1940s by Thomas Rebutato with whom he would establish a strong friendship, he built his Cabanon in 1952, testimony to his thoughts on standardized production, then, in 1954-1957, the Camping Units, a juxtaposition of five identical cells.
It was near this site that Le Corbusier died while swimming; he is buried in the cemetery of the old village of Roquebrune Cap-Martin which overlooks the sea. The entire site is now open to the public. While the mural painting is in complete contradiction with his definition of architecture as "pure play of light and volume", Le Corbusier will create various murals on this site, both in the villa of Eileen Gray and on the walls of L'Etoile de mer and on the walls of his Cabanon.
The author looks back at the various factors that led to this conversion and places this evolution of the architect in the more general context of mural painting at this time. This work documents, for the first time, all of this painted and drawn work, most of which still exists, and also shows a freer Le Corbusier, a true lover of the Mediterranean.
Editor: Heritage Edition
Weight: 613 g
Dimensions: 22.5cm × 28.2cm × 0.9cm
Language: French