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Bookcase from Chandigarh Architecture School

1960
167 см x 82 см
Category: design
Item Number: 019450
4 300 000
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About the Artist

Pierre Jeanneret is the French architect, designer and the cousin of Le Corbusier, his business companion and co-author of all projects between 1920-30s. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Geneva. He had an internship in the workshop of Auguste Perret (1920-1921) in Paris. Since 1951 Pierre Jeanneret is one of the main builders of Chandigarh, the new capital of the state of Punjab which became the main symbol of modernized India. Pierre Jeanneret carried out supervision including responsible for the construction of the famous Capitol complex. He had been lived in India until 1965 and worked on the post of Chief Architect of Punjab.