Lot 319 , Manner of Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss, 1896-1967): A solid teak and braided canework armchair

Manner of Pierre Jeanneret (Swiss, 1896-1967): A solid teak and braided canework armchair, the seat bottom tilting slightly forward and the back tilting slightly rearward, the splayed legs forming support for the flat armrests with curved frontage, 89cm high x 58cm wide x 75cm deep

This model is currently unrecorded as being used at Chandigarh, however they were used at the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad (IIMA), designed by American-Estonian architect Louis Kahn, with emerging Indian architects Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi an Anant Raje. The chairs and are photographed in use by students on the inaugural day of the post-graduate program (PGP) in 1964. B.V. Doshi had previously worked closely with Le Corbusier on the latter's projects in Paris between 1951 and 1954. In 1954, he returned to India to supervise Corbusier's buildings in Ahmedabad, which included the Villa Sarabhai, Villa Shodhan, Mill Owners' Association Building, and Sanskar Kendra. Corbusier is described as having been a major influence on Doshi's later work. It is therefore likely that Pierre Jeanneret produced the design for these chairs, worked together with Doshi and/or Le Corbusier, or that Doshi himself, under the influence of Jeanneret, designed the furniture.
£400-800