Architecture & Design Film Festival Screening: This is a story about Eileen Gray's visionary masterpiece, E.1027, and her battle to reclaim control from Le Corbusier’s dominance over her creation.
About the film
She built a house for herself. Unfortunately, it turned out to be a masterpiece.
Irish designer Eileen Gray built a refuge on the Côte d‘Azur in 1929. Her first house is a discrete, avant-garde masterpiece. She named 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, became intrigued and obsessed. He later covered the walls with murals and published photos of them. Gray described these paintings as vandalism and demanded restitution. He ignored her wishes and instead built his famous Cabanon directly behind E.1027, which dominates the narrative of the site to this day.
This is a story about the power of one woman’s creative expression and a man’s desire to control it.
E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 90 minutes
- Language: English
- Country:Switzerland
- Premiere: Los Angeles
- Director: Beatrice Minger, Christoph Schaub
Screening location
Chicago Cultural Center, Cassidy Theater, 78 E. Washington St., 2nd Floor North
