No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection
No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection
Charlotte Perriand
Bookcase from Maison de la Tunisie
Auction Closed
June 5, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Charlotte Perriand
Bookcase from Maison de la Tunisie
circa 1952
pine, mahogany, lacquered metal
the metal elements produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France
62 ¼ x 139 ¼ x 20 ¾ in. (158.1 x 353.7 x 52.7 cm)
Maison de la Tunisie, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris
DeLorenzo Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992
Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, exh. cat., Weil am Rhein, 1996, pp. 186-87
Yvonne Brunhammer, Le Mobilier Français 1930-1960, Paris, 1997, p. 127
Mary McLeod, Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living, New York, 2003, pp. 141-143 and 228-229
Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Un art d’habiter, Paris, 2005, pp. 348-361 and 363-365
Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works, Volume 2, 1940-1955, 2017, pp. 366-381
Sébastian Cherruet and Jacques Barsac, eds., Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World, exh. cat., Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2019, pp. 266-267 and 400
Galerie Downtown – François Laffanour, Living with Charlotte Perriand, Paris, 2019, pp. 256-257
Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé: A Collection of Tamotsu Yagi, Venice, California, 2022, pp. 1-3 (for the present lot illustrated)
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