Inspiring Executive Desk designed by LeCorbusier along with his cousin Pierre Jenneret for a Government Project in India
Executive Desk-1954
LeCorbusier
The show also previewed his remarkable 500-piece trove of rare modernist furniture designed for Chandigarh, India.
Conceived after Partition as a symbol of a newly independent nation, the city was master-planned by architect Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, who also designed its furniture—a series of pieces crafted between 1954 and 1966 from teak and rosewood that fused European modernism with Indian material traditions.
Bijlani first encountered Chandigarh furniture on a formative trip to India and began collecting in 2004,
when he was in his twenties, reupholstering many in sumptuous Loro Piana cashmeres as a nod to the nearby Himalayas.
Inspiring Executive Desk designed by LeCorbusier along with his cousin Pierre Jenneret for a Government Project in India
Executive Desk-1954
LeCorbusier
The show also previewed his remarkable 500-piece trove of rare modernist furniture designed for Chandigarh, India.
Conceived after Partition as a symbol of a newly independent nation, the city was master-planned by architect Le Corbusier and his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret, who also designed its furniture—a series of pieces crafted between 1954 and 1966 from teak and rosewood that fused European modernism with Indian material traditions.
Bijlani first encountered Chandigarh furniture on a formative trip to India and began collecting in 2004,
when he was in his twenties, reupholstering many in sumptuous Loro Piana cashmeres as a nod to the nearby Himalayas.