E 1027 service entry with sens interdit painted in Le Corbusier stencils

E 1027 Maison en bord de mer,This is the full title as it appeared in the special issue of the Winter 1929 issue of L’Architecture Vivante. Eileen Gray’s first completed architectural project, was designed with and for Jean Badovici, a Romanian architect who co-founded the architecture magazine...

In 1971, when Joseph Rykwert wrote his article reevaluating the work of Eileen Gray, there was little information available about her, no formal archive, and only a few known and scattered pieces of furniture. Yet Rykwert succeeded nevertheless in revealing that this relatively unknown woman was one of the major...