Eileen Gray's furniture was removed from her villa E-1027 and sold at Sotheby's in 1991; the state bought the ruined house in 1999

Eileen Gray designed the villa E-1027 for Jean Badovici, who kept it after they separated in 1932. Le Corbusier painted murals on walls Gray had left white in 1938 and 1939, which she called vandalism. Badovici died in 1956 and the house was bought in 1960 by Marie-Louise Schelbert, a friend of Le Corbusier. Le Corbusier died in the sea off the beach outside it in 1965. Accounts differ on what happened next. One says Schelbert owned the house until 1974 and gave it to her doctor, Peter Kägi^†. Another says he inherited it. Archiseek reports that Kägi removed Gray's furniture to Switzerland and sold it at Sotheby's Monaco on 13 October 1991 for the equivalent of about 390,000 euros^†. The house fell into near ruin. The French state and the commune bought it in 1999. Restoration reached 600,000 euros by 2013, the Getty Foundation gave $200,000 in 2016, and the villa opened to visitors in July 2021.