CH020302
Library table in solid teak and teak veneer. Thick, removable veneered top, with solid wood apron.
Two sturdy "angle" type side leg assemblies slot in beneath iron blocks affixed to the top.
Circa 1955-56.
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.: Similar model in "Catalogue Dorotheum" Sale on 18/05/2010 in Vienna - Austria, page 130, lot no. 179. Sold for €55 560.
Photo ref.: "Catalogue Leclere" Sale on 28/04/2014 in Marseille, page 60, lot no. 53. Sold for €75480.
Photo ref.:"Catalogue Bonhams-Design" Sale on 21/06/2016 in New York, pages 48 and 49, lot no.49. Sold for $62500 / 55593€.
Photo ref.: Catalogue Aguttes, similar model, sale on 07/05/2018 in Paris, pages 30 et 31, lot no. 20. Sold for €52000.
Photo ref.: Catalogue Sotheby’s, similar model, sale on 28/05/2019 in Paris, pages 232-233, lot no. 158. Sold for €46250.
Photo ref.: "Catalogue Artcurial Briest, Poulain, F.Tajan" Design sale on 19/05/2014 in Paris, page 116 and 117, lot no. 72.
Photo ref. : Similar model in "Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh, India" by Galerie Patrick Seguin, pages 168, 169, 182, 197, 206, 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 286.
Photo ref.: Similar model in “Catalogue – Amie Siegel” Ed. Prem Krishnamurthy. Printed : die Keure 2014, pages 230, 231.
Photo ref.: Similar model in "Le Corbusier Pierre Jeanneret l'Aventure Indienne" by Eric Touchaleaume and Gérald Moreau, page 580 under reference: PJ-TAT-08-A.
Photo ref.: Similar model in "Chandigarh, Pierre Jeanneret" by François Laffanour - Laffanour Galerie Downtown, Paris, 2015, pages 37, 38, 75.
