Villa E-1027 in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin on the French Riviera, an emblem of modernist architecture by Eileen Gray, has just reopened its doors following extensive restoration works. The two-storey house ...

For Gray, the philosophy of design and private life could be intimately linked. She argued that an “atrophy of sensuality” had resulted in the “poverty of modern architecture”. Domestic space, in ...