The Architect Who Was Erased by PaintHow one man's murals rewrote a woman's legacy.

The story of modernist pioneer Eileen Gray reveals how easily female authorship can be overwritten. When architect Le Corbusier was a guest at her masterpiece, the E-1027 villa, he painted murals on its walls without her consent—an act of vandalism that led to the home being misattributed to him for decades. This incident highlights a pattern of male 'genius' being used to eclipse the contributions of women in art and design history, prompting us to question how many other stories have been similarly obscured.

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