Jeanneret PJ-SI-28-B armchair

Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967) is recognised as a pivotal figure in modernism. His collaborations with his cousin Le Corbusier are especially significant, particularly their codification of modernist architectural principles in Five Points Towards a New Architecture (1926). Towards the end of their careers the pair also designed a utopian modernist city in India – Chandigarh, and Jeanneret designed some of his most celebrated furniture designs for the administrative buildings in the city.

One example is the PJ-SI-28-B desk armchair, which has subsequently become an iconic and coveted exemplar of Jeanneret’s talent. It strongly evokes the designer’s persistent form-follows-function ideology, but the chair’s identity also manages to be original, lucid and elegant, with assured interplays of geometry and balanced forms. This model has armrests, a variation on Jeanneret’s PJ-SI-25-A.

Literature:
Eric Touchaleaume et Gérald Moreau “Le Corbusier / Pierre Jeanneret – L’Aventure Indienne”, Paris, 2010, PJ-SI-28-A, pp. 191, 343, 562.

L45.5 W52 H80cm

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