The ideas presented in this site developed out of a series of dialogues focused on the work of Eileen Gray. Foremost are the published dialogue of Gray and Badovici in the 1929 special issue of L'Architecture Vivante, and their collaboration at E1027. We engage a related dialogue with theirs, across the languages and borders of France and Ireland. This site emulates Gray and Badovici's cross-cultural dialogue, quotations excerpted from their French context into ours, American and now Irish. Our photographs, taken during visits to the houses in 1994, are contrasted with those published in L'Architecture Vivante, providing another layer of dialogue.

The new permanent exhibition on the life and work of Eileen Gray (1878-1976) has opened at the National Museum in Collins Barracks. The exhibition which is based around her personal effects traces her career from her early works in lacquer through to her important architecture work at E.1027. The museum purchased her archive for €1.142 million in June 2000.