Stagnation was alien to Eileen Gray, and so she moved to the Côte d’Azur with her new muse, the architect
Jean Badovici. He had encouraged his companion, who was still inexperienced in architecture, to design and
build a house there. In 1929, she completed her Villa E1027 on the Mediterranean coast near Monaco, today the
iconic Gray gesamtkunstwerk par excellence. Blue, yellow and white – during this auspicious time, the Medi-
terranean summer colours shone particularly brightly for Eileen Gray, whose work was published by Badovici.
In 1929, he dedicated an entire issue of his magazine L’Architecture vivante to the now proud architect Eileen
Gray and her design manifesto. At that time, new carpet motifs such as Blue Marine or Centimetre told of the
sea and of ship voyages, soon also in a second house in nearby Castellar, where she lived alone from 1940 afer
separating from Badovici.
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