ABSTRACT
Eileen Gray was born on August 9, 1878, into an aristocratic Anglo-Irish family. She spent part of her childhood and adolescence in the family home, Brownswood, near Enniscorthy, County Wexford, in Ireland, and another in her mother's house in London. Eileen Gray is, in architecture, the contemporary counterpart of those Anglo-Irish artists and writers who opted for cultural exile, as James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Eileen Gray looked for the appropriate lot of land, bought it for him and built the Maison en bord de mer, also called E.1027. The idea was to design, build and furnish a house that would become a pioneering model, an intensely personal experiment in the progressive spirit of the Modern Movement. Eileen Gray started her practical studies in 1924 with Adrienne Gorska, a young Polish architect who taught her the first steps in architectural drafting. Eileen Gray spends most of her time at the construction during 1926 through 1929.
