Pierre Jeanneret Writing Table for Junior Officers PJ-BU-14-A

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. As one of the founding fathers of modernism, Jeanneret imagined his furniture as an extension of his architectural principles with an emphasis on function. It gives a rationalistic conception of his design, 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 Writing Table for Junior Officers was created for the Chandigarh project during 1957-1958. The piece comprises a thin and elegant writing desk and cabinetry for storage.

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Literature:
E. Touchaleaume, Alain de Gourcuff (ed.), Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret : L'aventure indienne, Paris 2010, p. 198-199, 576.

Location: London