Rare low table, ca. 1960
Indian rosewood, wrought iron, iron. 17 3/4 in. (45.1 cm.) high, 35 1/2 in. (90.2 cm.) diameter
PROVENANCE Private Collection of an employee of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh; Galerie 54, Paris; Jean Prouvé's Prototype Maison Tropicale and Other Works, Christie's New York, June 5, 2007, Lot 242
LITERATURE “La maison de Pierre Jeanneret à Chandigarh,” Aujourd’hui: Art et Architecture, September 1956, pp. 62 and 65; Gilles Barbey, et al., “Hommage à Pierre Jeanneret,” Werk, Bauen und Formen mit Kunststoff-Das Lebenswerk von Pierre Jeanneret, June 1968, pp. 381 and 392; Sarbjit Bahga and Surinder Bahga, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret: Footprints on the Sands of Indian Architecture, New Delhi, 2000, p. 35
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