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'Tunisie' Bookcase, from La Maison de la Tunisie, Cité Universitaire Internationale, Paris, 1952
Details
CHARLOTTE PERRIAND (1903-1999)
'Tunisie' Bookcase, from La Maison de la Tunisie, Cité Universitaire Internationale, Paris, 1952
manufactured by Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France
pine, mahogany, painted steel, painted aluminum, painted diamond-point embossed aluminum
62 ¾ x 139 x 20 7⁄8 in. (159.4 x 353 x 53 cm)
'Tunisie' Bookcase, from La Maison de la Tunisie, Cité Universitaire Internationale, Paris, 1952
manufactured by Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France
pine, mahogany, painted steel, painted aluminum, painted diamond-point embossed aluminum
62 ¾ x 139 x 20 7⁄8 in. (159.4 x 353 x 53 cm)
Provenance
Private Collection, France
Magen H. Gallery, New York, 2017
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Magen H. Gallery, New York, 2017
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Galerie Jousse Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 154-155, 178
M. McLeod, ed., Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living, New York, 2003, pp. 143, 228-229
J. Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, l’oeuvre complète, 1940-1955, Paris, 2015, vol. 2, pp. 367, 369 (for a drawing), 371-381 (for a discussion of the commission)
J. Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, l’œuvre complète, 1956-1968, Paris, vol. 3, 2017, p. 510
Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a new world, exh. cat., Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2019, pp. 266-267, 400, 411, no. 11
M. McLeod, ed., Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living, New York, 2003, pp. 143, 228-229
J. Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, l’oeuvre complète, 1940-1955, Paris, 2015, vol. 2, pp. 367, 369 (for a drawing), 371-381 (for a discussion of the commission)
J. Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, l’œuvre complète, 1956-1968, Paris, vol. 3, 2017, p. 510
Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a new world, exh. cat., Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2019, pp. 266-267, 400, 411, no. 11
Further details
This model can be found in the permanent collection of the Vitra Design Museum, Weil-am-Rhein (inv. no. MFR-1021).
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