Pierre Jeanneret Dining Chair, Office Cane Chair, PJ-SI-28-A
Price on request
Historical Design
1955
Teak Wood, Cane, Upholstery (CWG Fabric, Gomina Black)
50 x 78 x 52 cm
19.7 x 30.7 x 20.5 in
This caned office chair was conceived by Pierre Jeanneret, a Swiss architect, painter and designer, greatly influenced by Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier), his cousin and mentor. He joined the UAM (Union of Modern Artists) in 1930 and worked with Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé in the Le Corbusier-Pierre Jeanneret studio in Paris. In the 1950’s, he created alongside with his cousin most of Chandigarh’s (India) large civic architecture and design projects. As one of the founding fathers of modernism, Jeanneret imagined his furniture as though it was an extension of his architectural principles with an emphasis not on decoration but on function. It gives a rationalistic conception of his design, coupled with a purity of lines and a geometrical sense of space. The timeless nature of Jeanneret’s furniture has led to its incredible market renaissance in recent years.
Artist
Pierre Jeanneret
Born in 1896 in Geneva, Pierre Jeanneret graduated from the Geneva School of Fine Arts in 1921 and moved to Paris this same year. Since then, he became his cousin Le Corbusier’s closest associate and he is perhaps better known for this collaboration.
