Pierre Jeanneret
Pair of 'Library' chairs, model no. PJ-SI-51-A, designed for the Punjab University Library, Chandigarh, circa 1959-1960
Teak, cane.
Each: 78 x 46 x 50.5 cm
Footnotes:
Provenance
High Court, Chandigarh, India
Acquired directly from the above by the present owners, 2005

Exhibited
P3, University of Westminster, London, The Furniture of Chandigarh: Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, 20 June–12 July 2009

Literature
Norma Evenson, Chandigarh, Los Angeles, 1966, pl. 78
Kiran Joshi, Documenting Chandigarh, vol. 1, Ahmedabad, 1999, p. 225, fig. 3
Eric Touchaleaume and Gerald Moreau, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, The Indian Adventure: Design-Art-Architecture, Paris, 2010, pp. 111-12, 368, 372, 374, 569
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret: Chandigarh, India, Paris, 2014, pp. 182-87, 219, 221, 283
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