Le Corbusier Furniture Chandigarh
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Le corbusier furniture chandigarh. Le corbusier prepared the master plan for the city of chandigarh in india and contributed specific designs for several buildings there especially the government buildings. Jeanneret designed furniture for the entire complex using inexpensive locally sourced teak which was bug and humidity resistant. The city s heritage furniture had been finding way in auction houses of various countries in the past many years and being auctioned running in crores of rupees. In accordance with his will jeanneret s ashes were scattered in chandigarh s sukhna lake.
Online catalogue of furniture by le corbusier and pierre jeanneret. The chandigarh project included many innovative buildings. Le corbusier s iconic modern architecture and design charles édouard jeanneret better known as le corbusier was a pioneer of modern architecture and a leader of the international style. Le corbusier chairis design furniture for interior designer.
City museum at chandigarh sector 10. Le corbusier furniture le corbusier france 1887 1965 swiss born charles édouard jeanneret best known by his adopted name le corbusier was a highly influential architect designer painter urban planner and writer whose career spanned almost five decades. As example the famous original concrete lamps sofa chairs and all the prototypes of different cane chairs. Catalogue artcurial briest le fur poulain f.
It is an item with a mix of indian spiritualism and european modernity. The furniture and other items like. Punjab offered 1947 le corbusier and pierre jeanneret an opportinity to plan a unesco world heritage site. In turn le corbusier insisted on hiring his cousin pierre jeanneret to design the city s furniture.
Especially le corbusier created interior design of essential beauty. Governement and art gallery in chandigarh sector 10. Le corbusier center in chandigarh sector 19. Tajan similar model sale on 27 11 2006 in paris lot no.
Jeanneret died on 4 december 1967. Also it is a way to see the progress of an international style.