Pierre Jeanneret - Important Design London Wednesday, October 17, 2018 | Phillips
  • Provenance

    Chandigarh, India
    Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris

  • Literature

    E. Maxwell Fry, 'Problems of Chandigarh Architecture', Marg, vol. 15, no. 1, December 1961, p. 31
    Eric Touchaleaume and Gerald Moreau, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, The Indian Adventure: Design-Art-Architecture, Paris, 2010, pp. 111-12, 368, 374, 392, 569, 577
    Galerie Patrick Seguin, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret: Chandigarh, India, Paris, 2014, pp. 182-87, 221, 260-63, 265, 283, 288

51

'Administrative' desk, model no PJ-BU-19-A, designed for administrative buildings

circa 1960
Teak-veneered wood, teak, cane, leather, aluminium.
Desk: 71 x 114 x 76.1 cm (27 7/8 x 44 7/8 x 29 7/8 in.)
Chair: 78.2 x 45.9 x 49.5 cm (30 3/4 x 18 1/8 x 19 1/2 in.)

Together with a 'cane seat wood back' chair, model no. PJ-SI-51-A, designed by Pierre Jeanneret and Eulie Chowdury for the High Court, Punjab University Library, Chandigarh.

Estimate
£22,000 - 28,000 

Contact Specialist
Madalena Horta E Costa
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Important Design

London Auction 18 October 2018