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Edward James (1907 - 1984) was a millionaire of an American railroad family of Irish descent, whose British (Scots) mother was reputedly the natural daughter of the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII). James was educated briefly at Eton, and then at a private school in Switzerland, then at Oxford where he was a contemporary of Evelyn Waugh and Harold Acton. James was an art patron and surrealist who moved to Mexico in 1947 to grow orchids. After the orchids were destroyed by a freak snowstorm in 1962, he decided to switch to experiments in architecture.



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