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A pair of Pierre Jeanneret King office chairs, circa 1953, and…
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Auckland
Date:
12-Jun-2022
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A pair of Pierre Jeanneret King office chairs, circa 1953, and designed for office use in Chandigarh, India. In Pj-Si-28D style, with a sophisticated 'Compass' leg assembly, which subsequently supports the armrests and backrest, which is on a slight backward lean. Made from teak and braided cane, height 80 cm, width 54 cm, diameter 50 cm, Pierre Jeanneret spent fifteen years in India as Architect-in-Chief in the newly-created Punjab capital city and designed a whole typology of furniture to equip the buildings. His pieces are clean, functional and could be mass-produced using local materials and labour. They show the influence of the local tradition as Pierre Jeanneret selected local timber such as teak, and caning for chair seats and backs. By fusing the use of traditional Indian materials and craft with his modern design of furnishings, he introduced a new concept of Art de vivre in this newborn city. Chandigarh became a reference in terms of mid-century modernity and was inscribed on the list of Unesco world Heritage Sites in 2016. Unfortunately, many furnishings designed for Chandigarh did not survive intact into the new millennium, as they were dumped in favour of more contemporary designs or scrapped for their valuable wood.
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