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Pierre Jeanneret Library Desk Without Lighting PJ-TAT-08-A

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Historical Design

1955-1956

Teak Wood

296.5 x 75 x 138.5 cm
116.7 x 29.5 x 54.5 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 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 on function. It gives a rationalistic conception of his design combined with pure lines and a geometrical sense of space. The timeless nature of Jeanneret’s furniture has led to its incredible market renaissance in recent years.
The Library Desk Without Lightning was produced in different sizes and leg widths depending on its position in the study halls of Chandigarh. The thick tabletop is set on two legs which are forming a triangular shape. The structure is made of solid teak wood and the top can be removed.

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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.

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