E.1027

At E.1027 or "Maison en Bord de Mer" - House by the Sea in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin (FR), the name says it all. Built directly on the water's edge of the Mediterranean, it opens spectacularly in only one direction, towards the sea. The Irish designer and architect Eileen Gray, planned the house in 1926 together with the Romanian architect Jean Badovici. The house plays spatially with the water in various ways: through the spacious roof terrace, the generously glazed balcony in front of the living room, the densely planted garden, and the private bedrooms and study facing the sea.