Desk "director's table"

Pierre Jeanneret

1960

Material

Teak, leather and aluminum

Dimensions

H74 x W138 x D61 (cm)

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Provenance

Private collection

Inventory number

Solid teak director’s table. Rectangular top with a cedar frame* covered in black leather and inserted into a solid teak frame. Four pairs of high “compass”-type legs affixed under the table top. Two suspended chests on either side containing two drawers. Round, hollowed-out opening grips on an aluminum background, typical of the work of Pierre Jeanneret in Chandigarh.

*Cedar, a soft, local wood, allows the leather to be fixed by tacking, unlike teak, which is a dense wood and therefore too hard for the purpose.

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Pierre Jeanneret

Pierre Jeanneret is one of the prolific designers and architects in the modern world. He approached design with an intellectual focus, bringing a more humanistic focus that would become a hallmark of modernist design.

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