A love triangle of jealousy in the Parisian art scene of the 1930s is brought to life in a stylish docufiction about iconic artist and architect Eileen Gray, who built her modernist dream house on the Riviera, only to upstaged by Le Corbusier.

Eileen Gray had a truly eminent sense of design. The Irish artist and architect created some of the most iconic furniture of the 20^th century, so when she focussed her unique artistic vision on developing a house for herself on the Riviera in 1929, the result was a modernist triumph. A house and work of art in one, overlooking the sun-sparkled infinity of the Mediterranean. The house is name E.1027, a cryptic contraction of the names of Gray and her lover, Romanian architect Jean Badovici. But when Swiss-French star architect Le Corbusier learns of the house, he becomes obsessed – perhaps because Gray breathes light, air and soul into her building, which is not just a machine to live in.

This film reconstructs the dramatic story of Gray and the house that Le Corbusier amazingly managed to convince the world he had built himself. A stunningly beautiful and cinematic docufiction where the inspiration from Gray is present in lines, colours and shapes – but where they serve the narrative of a brilliant female artist who spent a long life in the shadow of her male colleagues.

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