A TUBULAR STEEL, METAL AND CANVAS CHAISE LONGUE
A TUBULAR STEEL, METAL AND CANVAS CHAISE LONGUE

LE CORBUSIER, DESIGNER, WITH PIERRE JEANNERET AND CHARLOTTE PERRIAND IN 1928, EXECUTED BY EMBRU CORPORATION, SWITZERLAND, CIRCA 1932

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A TUBULAR STEEL, METAL AND CANVAS CHAISE LONGUE
Le Corbusier, Designer, with Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand in 1928, Executed by Embru Corporation, Switzerland, circa 1932
approximately 26½in. (67.3cm.) high, 63in. (160cm.) long, 21in. (53.3cm.) wide
Provenance
Barry Friedman, New York
Maria de Beyrie, Paris
Private Collection, July 1996
Exhibited
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Année Trente en Europe, Le Temps Menaant 1929-1939, 20 February-25 May, 1997.

Lot Essay

cf. Max Terrier, "Meubles Metalliques," Art et Décoration (February 1930), p. 41; Renato de Fusco, Le Corbusier, Designer Furniture, 1929, 1977, pp. 68-69, figs. 1-2; Marian Page, Furniture Designed by Architects, 1980, pp. 188-189; Marc Emery, Furniture by Architects, 1983, p. 84, fig. 127; Kathryn B. Hiesinger and George H. Marcus, Landmarks of Twentieth-Century Design, 1993, p. 107, fig. 125, for illustrations of the model.

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