Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand - Design London Monday, September 26, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    La Maison du Brésil, Fondation Franco-Brésilienne, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris

  • Literature

    Françoise Choay, ‘Vous montre le Pavillon du Brésil que Le Corbusier vient d’achever à la Cité Universitaire de Paris’, L’Oeil, September 1959, pp. 54-59; Willy Boesiger, ed., Le Corbusier et Son Atelier rue de Sevres 35, Œuvre Complète Volume 7 • 1957-1965, New York, 1990, p. 198 for a drawing; Elisabeth Vedrenne, Le Corbusier: Mémoire du Style, Paris, 1998, pp. 66-67; ‘Le Corbu à La Cité U.’, L’Oeil, November 1998, pp. 70-75; Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand - Un Art d’Habiter, Paris, 2005, pp. 466-67 for drawings and p. 468

  • Catalogue Essay

    The present lot is one of eight double wardrobes that were made for
    La Maison du Brésil.

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Rare double wardrobe/room divider, from La Maison du Brésil, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris

1957-59
Oak, painted oak, moulded plastic, painted metal, painted tubular metal.
150.6 x 216.2 x 70.5 cm (59 1/4 x 85 1/8 x 27 3/4 in)
15 plastic drawers moulded with ‘MODELE CHARLOTTE PERRIAND/BREVETE S.G.D.G./© CHARLOTTE PERRIAND / ADAGP 2002/TIRAGE LIMITE BRESIL 02’ and two others molded with ‘MODELE CHARLOTTE PERRIAND/BREVETE S.G.D.G.’.

Estimate
£15,000 - 25,000 

Design

27 September 2011
London