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

classified 15 PS
Film

Fri 23 - Thu 29 May

Director
Beatrice Minger, Christoph Schaub
Cast
Natalie Radmall-Quirke, Axel Moustache, Charles Morillon
Details
89 mins, Partially Subtitled, 2025, Switzerland
Primary language
English, French

She built a house for herself. Unfortunately it turned out to be a masterpiece...

Irish designer Eileen Gray builds a refuge on the Côte d‘Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. She names it E.1027, a cryptic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it.

Le Corbusier, upon discovering the house, becomes intrigued, obsessed. He later covers the walls with murals and publishes photos of them. Gray describes these paintings as vandalism and demands restitution. He ignores her wishes and instead builds his famous Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day.


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