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STORAGE FURNITURE
Discover the different types of storage furniture through bookcases, dressing tables and bedside tables...
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In a clear and airy layout, objects and furniture are organized into families.
Catalogue raisonné Chandigarh
The Pierre JEANNERET catalogue raisonné ( Assouline Editions ) is the result of a diligent and meticulous work, it lists all the referenced and most of the time collected pieces recording the smallest details.
Areas of Chandigarh
The city of Chandigarh was initially designed for 150,000 inhabitants, and modified to receive 500,000. Today the city has 1,500,000 Chandigarhis.Its surface area is 114 km², of which 79 km² are in the city and 35 km² are classed as
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Metal and glasswork
Like everywhere else, the Chandigarhi workshops use screws, rails, knobs, hinges and various items of furniture hardware made of brass, rarely nickel-plated. A special place is reserved for aluminium, like the ventilation shutters made of folded and riveted sheets, shaped
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Furniture Markings
As mentioned above, the furniture produced for the Chandigarh project was not made in one single operation or at just one place of manufacture. On the contrary, the option chosen by the teams of Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret consisted
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Introduction
The construction of Chandigarh is historically linked to the events that led to the birth of two new nations from the former British colony.After independence on 15 August 1947, there was a bloody partition which saw the sub-continent divided into
