Sliding doors for a large built-in wardrobe, designed by Le Corbusier & Charlotte Perriand
Sliding doors for a large built-in wardrobe, designed by Le Corbusier & Charlotte Perriand
in 1951, for the L’Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, four parts and frame, natural oak, white industrial lacquer coating, two layers: an old oil-based layer and a second acrylic layer, overall dimensions: height 197.8 cm, width 238 cm, depth 13.4 cm (large doors: 144.9 x 112.3 x 7.4 cm; small doors 44.1 x 112.2 x 6.1 cm). (DRAX)
Provenance:
Unité d’Habitation de Marseille, 280 Boulevard Michelet, Belgium, purchased in 2013
Lit.:
L’Equipement de l’Habitation de Marseille, L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui, Paris, April 1952 (advertisement featuring the doors); J. Sbriglio, Le Corbusier: L’Unité d’Habitation de Marseille, Switzerland 2004, pp. 76–83 (on Ville Radieuse); Ch. Benton, Charlotte Perriand. Modernist Pioneer, exhibition catalogue, Design Museum, New York 1997, p. 332 (re-print of the 1952 advertisement)
The wardrobe for which these doors were used was in apartment no. 134. The doors were marketed by the gallery of Steph Simon and manufactured in Jean Prouvé’s ateliers, where architects could order them.
27.03.2019 - 17:00
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Sliding doors for a large built-in wardrobe, designed by Le Corbusier & Charlotte Perriand
in 1951, for the L’Unité d’Habitation in Marseille, four parts and frame, natural oak, white industrial lacquer coating, two layers: an old oil-based layer and a second acrylic layer, overall dimensions: height 197.8 cm, width 238 cm, depth 13.4 cm (large doors: 144.9 x 112.3 x 7.4 cm; small doors 44.1 x 112.2 x 6.1 cm). (DRAX)
Provenance:
Unité d’Habitation de Marseille, 280 Boulevard Michelet, Belgium, purchased in 2013
Lit.:
L’Equipement de l’Habitation de Marseille, L’Architecture d’aujourd’hui, Paris, April 1952 (advertisement featuring the doors); J. Sbriglio, Le Corbusier: L’Unité d’Habitation de Marseille, Switzerland 2004, pp. 76–83 (on Ville Radieuse); Ch. Benton, Charlotte Perriand. Modernist Pioneer, exhibition catalogue, Design Museum, New York 1997, p. 332 (re-print of the 1952 advertisement)
The wardrobe for which these doors were used was in apartment no. 134. The doors were marketed by the gallery of Steph Simon and manufactured in Jean Prouvé’s ateliers, where architects could order them.
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