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Pierre Jeanneret

Desk and chair from Chandigarh

France/India, c. 1957
teak, leather, cane, upholstery, zinc desk: 28 h × 48 w × 32¾ d in (71 × 122 × 83 cm) chair: 33 h × 16¼ w × 19 d in (84 × 41 × 48 cm)
estimate: $8,000–10,000
result: $9,450
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Desk features seven storage compartments and one drawer. Stenciled mark to reverse of desk and hand-painted mark to revsere of chair.
provenance: Punjab University Student Residence and Administrative Buildings, Chandigarh, India | Private Collection
literature: Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret: The Indian Adventure, Design-Art-Architecture, Touchaleaume and Moreau, ppg. 561, 572-573

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[Chandigarh] is the biggest example in India of experimental architecture [...] It hits you on the head and makes you think. I like the creative approach, not being tied down by what has been done by our forefathers but thinking in new terms […] in the ultimate analysis, a thing which fits in with social functions is beautiful.

Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Former Prime Minister of India

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