The Furniture from Chandigarh: Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret
20th June - 12th July '09
P3 exhibitions
35 Marylebone Road, London
For those of you who didn’t get a chance to see Le Corbusier the Art of Architecture at the Barbican, there’s still a chance for you to catch a glimpse of some of the renowned architects spectacular furniture designs.
This summer, the vast underground exhibition space P3 presents the first public display of a unique private collection of 1950s, furniture designed by two heroes of the modern movement, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret.
At the end of the Raj and following the partition of India, Le Corbusier and his collaborator Pierre Jeanneret were commissioned to design Chandigarh, a new city at the foothills of the Himalayas. this gave them the opportunity to realise their ambition of designing a total environment. They designed infrastructure, landscape and buildings, working at all scales from the master plan down to the tiniest detail of interiors and furniture.
Featuring the lesser known furniture from Chandigarh, the exhibition reveals Le Corbusier and Jeanneret’s move to ever simpler, non-mechanically made, hand crafted pieces. In a departure form their earlier aesthetic of mass produced tubular steel furniture, the Chandigarh items demonstrate a ‘mass-individuality’, as no two pieces are identical.
