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Pierre Jeanneret chair, a masterpiece from Chandigarh — curated by P! Galerie Zurich
Pierre Jeanneret
Pierre Jeanneret and the architect Le Corbusier collaborated on one of the most ambitious and ideologically charged urban projects of the 20th century: the creation of Chandigarh. The furniture designed for this city was not ornamental — it was infrastructural. Every original Pierre Jeanneret chair was part of a system: architectural, institutional, and social. These chairs were developed for public buildings — courts, universities, ministries — and reflected a belief in modernism as civic structure. At P! Galerie in Zurich, we specialise in authentic, original Pierre Jeanneret chairs and Chandigarh furniture. Our inventory includes verified pieces from Indian government buildings — sourced directly from Chandigarh and Ahmedabad — and selected for their provenance, condition, and material integrity. We do not sell reproductions. Every item in our collection is a historical object. Our selection includes iconic Pierre Jeanneret chair models such as the PJ-SI-28-A office chair, the PJ-SI-59-A Kangaroo lounge chair, and the PJ-SI-33-C committee bench. We also offer floating-back armchairs, slatted benches, modular bookcases, desks, and filing systems. These chairs were made in local workshops from Indian teak, cane, and plywood — using traditional joinery and basic tools — often with small variations and workshop signatures that reinforce their authenticity.So they used simple technologies to develop a rich language of furniture: radical, humble and honest. Jeanneret chair is an experimental artefact, making out of it a valuable collector’s item. That is the reason why they are a part of the MoMA permanent collection. Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand did French design and furniture. An original Corbusier chair remains unique in purpose and form. Each Pierre Jeanneret chair carries architectural weight. The proportions echo the modularity of the city plan. The rawness is not incidental — it’s essential. These pieces were conceived alongside buildings, not after them. Together with Le Corbusier and B. V. Doshi, Jeanneret developed a furniture program that extended architectural space into everyday use. P! Galerie treats these objects as cultural documents. We do not over-restore. We preserve the authentic patina, surface wear, construction marks — signs of use that tie the object to its institutional origin. Every Pierre Jeanneret chair we offer comes with full documentation, historical context, and certification. Our practice also includes parallel positions in architectural furniture: Charlotte Perriand’s Nuage shelving systems, Jean Prouvé’s steel structures, Lina Bo Bardi’s Brazilian concrete-wood hybrids, and Tom Strala’s contemporary Swiss radicalism. We approach these pieces not as collectibles, but as spatial tools. We have exhibited and sold original Pierre Jeanneret chairs internationally — through 1stdibs, Artsy, Art Basel, Design Miami, soon TEFAF too. Our clients include collectors, museums, architects, and institutions across New York, Paris, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Shanghai, and Mexico City. Our showroom in Dietikon (near Zurich) presents these pieces in architectural installations — not as lifestyle arrangements, but as curated fragments of a historical system.
How valuable is a Pierre jeanneret chair?
Pierre Jeanneret’s work resists decorative reduction. His chairs are not about comfort — they are about structure, refusal, and material honesty. Every original Pierre Jeanneret chair is an artefact of a political and architectural ideology. Chandigarh’s modernism is visible in these objects: civic, direct, unfinished — and precisely for that, complete. P! Galerie is directed by Pedja Hadzi-Manovic, an architect from eth Zurich and design researcher focused on mid-century institutional design, postcolonial architecture, and material ideology. His practice connects physical objects with historical trajectories — from Chandigarh to Cansado, from Zurich to Ahmedabad. We collaborate with auction houses such as Sotheby’s, Christie’s and Wright20, but maintain independent curatorial control.
How collecting Le Corbusier furniture and interior design?
Many Pierre Jeanneret chair models are now part of international museum collections — including MoMA, the Vitra Design Museum, and the Victoria & Albert. Their inclusion is not nostalgic. It reflects their ongoing relevance: as tools, as typologies, as ideology in form. What we offer is not style. It’s substance. Each Pierre Jeanneret chair we sell is a witness — to an unfinished project of architecture, function, and civic presence. For inquiries, viewing appointments, or documentation requests, contact P! Galerie in Zurich.
