CH020301
Reading light table in solid teak and teak veneer. Thick veneered top, collapsible, with solid wood apron. Two solid "angle" type side legs slot in beneath teak blocks affixed to the top. At the centre, light is provided by two reflectors in sea green lacquered, folded sheet metal, mounted on eight tubes of grey lacquered steel.
With a central insert for separation, an opaque glass slab.
Circa 1963-64.
Dimensions:
Provenance: Assembly in Chandigarh and library at Panjab University (sector 14).
History: this table came in various sizes depending on its position in the work rooms.
Photo ref.: "Catalogue Christie's" Sale on 05/06/2007 in New York, page 116, lot no. 264. Sold for $96000 / €71040.
Photo ref.: "Catalogue Leclere" Sale on 23/10/2010 in Marseille, page 60 and 61, lot no. 115. Sold for €62900.
Photo ref.: Similar model in "La Gazette Drouot" from 07/02/2014, page 67, sale at the Cornette de Sain-Cyr auction house in Paris Drouot, sold for €106360.
Photo ref. : Similar model in the catalogue "Phillips - Design London Evening Sale". Sale on 28/04/2015, lot no 220. Sold for £140500 / €195915.
Photo ref.: Catalogue Phillips – Design London, similar model, sale on 27/04/2016, lot no. 28. Sold for £122500 / €157890.
Photo ref. : Similar model in "Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh, India" by Galerie Patrick Seguin, pages 173, 185, 217, 218, 219, 220, 221, 223, 286, 291, 309.
Photo ref.: Similar model in “Catalogue – Amie Siegel” Ed. Prem Krishnamurthy. Printed : die Keure 2014, pages 44, 45, 72, 73, 106, 107, 158, 159.
Photo ref.: Similar model in "Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret l'Aventure Indienne" by Eric Touchaleaume and Gérald Moreau, page 580 under reference: PJ-TAT-10-B.
