E.1027: Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea

The Irish artist and architect Eileen Gray had a truly eminent sense of design. She created some of the most iconic furniture of the 20th century, mostly in France where she lived most of her life. When she focused her unique artistic vision on developing a house for herself on the Riviera in 1929, the result was a modernist triumph. A house and a work of art in one, overlooking the sun-sparkled infinity of the Mediterranean. The house is named E.1027, a cryptic contraction of the names of Gray and her lover, Romanian architect Jean Badovici.

When Swiss-French star architect Le Corbusier learns of the house, he becomes obsessed with it and manages to upstage it by building another house next to it.

This docufiction about the fight for women’s recognition in a male dominated industry is a stunningly beautiful and cinematic film, where Gray’s inspiration is present in lines, colours and shapes.