Josephin Ritschel (Mevameva) is an illustrator living and working in Berlin. We originally knew her thanks to Wrap Magazine that used the illustration below as a cover for issue #3.
Her strong interest in architecture is manifested through pencil drawings in which houses are featured in often bizarre and surreal scenes (ranging from alien abductions to ‘business dances’).
Following are some illustrations of the famous Eileen Gray’s house E.1027, (standing right beside the original location of Le Corbusier’s Cabanon), that she describes like this:
Portrait of Eileen Gray with her house E.1027 for upcoming book “The Who, the What and the When: 65 Artists Illustrate the Secret Accomplices of History” coming out on Chronicle Books 2014.
Le Corbusier was so fascinated by this house, built by Eileen Gray, that he started to visit it increasingly. After a while he painted naked sexual images on the white walls. Eileen Gray was shocked about this and never came back to this house.
(Although we are not sure about this last sentence, it is indeed true that the friendship between Eileen Gray and Le Corbu was ruined after Le Corbu’s “performance”)
A naked Le Corbusier and Eileen Gray walking alongside furniture designed by Eileen Gray herself.
All images © Josephin Ritschel
Also visit Ritschel’s Flickr page
Hello
My name is Sandra Loyola Guízar, I’m working at Bitácora, journal of the School of Architecture of the National University of México (UNAM)
We are doing a thematic issue on gender perspective for our next 33th issue and we will publish an article about Eileen Gray. We need ilustrations about E-1027 and we want to know about the copyright of the ilustrations of your web page, and the size to print.
We think this ilustrations would be a great addition to our thematic issue.
Thank you in advance
Warm regards,
Sandra Loyola
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Hello
My name is Sandra Loyola Guízar, I’m working at Bitácora, journal of the School of Architecture of the National University of México (UNAM)
We are doing a thematic issue on gender perspective for our next 33th issue and we will publish an article about Eileen Gray. We need ilustrations about E-1027 and we want to know about the copyright of the ilustrations of your web page. And the size for print them
We think this photos would be a great addition to our thematic issue.
Thank you in advance
Warm regards,
Sandra Loyola
Dear Sandra,
as we do not own the copyrights for these beautiful illustrations, the best way for you would be to ask directly the author the permission to reproduce her work in your journal.
You can find her contacts on her site: http://mevameva.de/
Best,
FL, MBF