The chair is clearly visible in the photographs of Tempe à Pailla, thedesigner’s home in Castellar, in the south of France, where it wasused in the lacquered version as a chair for the terrace. It is not certainwhether it was conceived as part of the project for Villa E 1027 inRoquebrune that Eileen Gray designed with Jean Badovici between1927 and 1929. It associated an extreme formal simplicity with a deepconstructive complexity.