LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)

AN OAK 'MECHANIC'S DESK', 1952

Details

LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)
An Oak 'Mechanic's Desk', 1952
27½ in. (70 cm.) high, 66 1/8 in. (168 cm.) wide, 42 1/8 in. (107 cm.) deep

Provenance

Equipment room for the elevator machinery, Unité d'Habitation, Marseille.
Private collection, Marseille.

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie 54, Le Corbusier - Tapisserie dite de 'Marie Cuttoli' dans un environnement de mobilier provenant de la Cité Radieuse de Marseille, Paris, May - June 2004.

Lot Essay

cf. A. Brooks, ed., The Le Corbusier Archive, New York/Paris, 1982-84, vol. 17, p. 501, plan no. 30767 for the technical drawing of a highly comparable desk, titled 'Mechanic's desk', designed for the Unité d'Habitation, Marseille.

Le Corbusier created a variant of the present desk for his own house in Roquebrune Cap Martin in 1952.

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