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Property from a Private French Collection
PIERRE JEANNERET (1896-1967)
Illuminated Library Table, Model No. PJ-TAT-10-B, designed for the Legislative Assembly and the Punjab University Library, Chandigarh, India, circa 1963-1964
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PIERRE JEANNERET (1896-1967)
Illuminated Library Table, Model No. PJ-TAT-10-B, designed for the Legislative Assembly and the Punjab University Library, Chandigarh, India, circa 1963-1964
teak, glass, painted sheet and tube steel
40 7⁄8 x 97 x 49 in. (103.8 x 246.4 x 124.5 cm)
Illuminated Library Table, Model No. PJ-TAT-10-B, designed for the Legislative Assembly and the Punjab University Library, Chandigarh, India, circa 1963-1964
teak, glass, painted sheet and tube steel
40 7⁄8 x 97 x 49 in. (103.8 x 246.4 x 124.5 cm)
Provenance
Chandigarh, India, circa 1963-1964
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2006
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2006
Literature
K. Joshi, Documenting Chandigarh: The Indian Architecture of Pierre Jeanneret, Edwin Maxwell, Jane Beverly Drew, Volume 1, Ahmedabad, 1999, p. 225, n. 3 (for a period photograph of the model in the University Library)
É. Touchaleaume and G. Moreau, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret: L'Aventure Indienne / The Indian Adventure: Design, Art, Architecture, Montreuil, 2010, pp. 368, 370-371, 372 (for period images of the reading room of the Penjab University Library), 373 (for a variant), 380
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh, India 1951-1966, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, 2014, pp. 173, 185, 217-221, 286, 291 (for other examples), 222-223, 309 (present lot illustrated)
J. Dworczak, Jeanneret Chandigarh: Catalogue Raisonné du Mobilier, New York, 2018, pp. 218-221
É. Touchaleaume and G. Moreau, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret: L'Aventure Indienne / The Indian Adventure: Design, Art, Architecture, Montreuil, 2010, pp. 368, 370-371, 372 (for period images of the reading room of the Penjab University Library), 373 (for a variant), 380
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh, India 1951-1966, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, 2014, pp. 173, 185, 217-221, 286, 291 (for other examples), 222-223, 309 (present lot illustrated)
J. Dworczak, Jeanneret Chandigarh: Catalogue Raisonné du Mobilier, New York, 2018, pp. 218-221
Exhibited
New York, Sonnabend Gallery, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh, India, 1952-1956, February-March 2006
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