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

A love triangle in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in this stylish docufiction about iconic Irish artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to be upstaged by Le Corbusier. Gray created some of the most iconic furniture of the 20th century, and when she focused her unique artistic vision on developing a house, named E.1027, for herself and her lover, Romanian architect Jean Badovici, on the Riviera in 1929, the result was a modernist triumph. But when the Swiss-French star architect Le Corbusier learns of the house, he became obsessed and increasingly jealous of Gray’s achievement. The film reconstructs the dramatic story of Gray and the house that Le Corbusier amazingly managed to convince the world he had built himself.

Screening at the IFI in Temple Bar, Dublin from Friday, May 16th. Tickets on sale from Monday, May 12th.

Streaming on IFI@Home across the Republic of Ireland from Monday, June 30th.