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 avant-garde brilliance. She names it E.1027, a cryptic marriage of her initials and those of Jean Badovici, with whom she built it. When he comes across the house, Le Corbusier becomes intrigued, obsessed. He later covers the walls with murals and publishes photos of them. Gray describes these paintings as vandalism and demands restitution. Le Corbusier ignores her wishes, and builds his famous Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day. Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea is a story about the power of female expression—and men’s desire to control it.
In English and French, with English subtitles.
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