Pierre Jeanneret
1896 – 1967
Pierre Jeanneret,arrived in Paris in 1921 where he soon became the closest collaborator of his cousin Le Corbusier. These architects, inventors of the modernist movement, were responsible for some famous creations, including the Villa Roche (1923) and the Villa Savoye (1929); the Swiss Pavilion at the Cité Universitaire in Paris (1931); the Cité Refuge in Paris (1932); a vast Urban Plan for Algiers, and the incredible futuristic project for Paris known as the “Plan Voisin de Paris” (1925); the urban plan for the city of Chandigarh, India together with the construction of the government buildings and residential districts.
Pierre Jeanneret was responsible for much of Chandigarh's large civic architecture project. His most remarkable contribution has undoubtedly been the designing of the fourteen categories of mass-housings that constitute the living and amenity areas of Chandigarh. Jeanneret, along with Ar. Jugal Kishore Chowdhary, Ar. Bhanu Pratap Mathur and Er. Agya Ram, was responsible for a significant amount of designing for the Panjab University, including the Gandhi Bhawan and the University Library.
Jeanneret stayed on in Chandigarh after its construction, advising the local government in his appointed capacity as Chief Architect of the city.
Pierre Jeanneret designed the Chandigarh furniture to be used in all the government buildings. For financial reasons, the furniture was made with local Indian materials including teak, rosewood, pine trees, ratan. The furniture was mass produced – more than 350 000 pieces out of which many vintage furniture has been destroyed – by local craftsmen individually working within tiny worlshop without electricity or modern tools. This explains the reason why not all the furniture produced has small differences from each others.
We have a large selection of guenuine vintage pieces from the late 1950’s early 1960’s.
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