Pierre Jeanneret Committee Chair - PJ-SI-30-A Black Cowhide
Price on request
Historical Design
1953-1954
Teak Wood, Upholstery (Black Cowhide)
55 x 85 x 56 cm
21.7 x 33.5 x 22 in
Pierre Jeanneret was 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 1950s, he created, alongside his cousin, most of Chandigarh’s (India) significant civic architecture and design projects. The Committee chair was conceived for this project. As one of the founders of modernism, Jeanneret imagined his furniture as an extension of his architectural principles with an emphasis on function. His conception of the design was rationality, 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.
Literature:
E. Touchaleaume, Alain de Gourcuff (ed.), Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret : L'aventure indienne, Paris 2010, pp. 232-233.
Location: New York
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.
