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 du Mexique
Auction Closed
June 5, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Charlotte Perriand
Bookcase from Maison du Mexique
circa 1953
pine, lacquered metal, mahogany
the metal elements produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France
63 ½ x 72 ½ x 12 ¾ in. (161.3 x 184.2 x 32.4 cm)
Maison du Mexique, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, circa 1953
DeLorenzo Gallery, New York
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1992
Mary McLeod, Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living, New York, 2003, pp. 230-231
Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Un art d'habiter, Paris, 2005, pp. 348, 368-375 and 377-379
Tamotsu Yagi, The Graphic Eye of Tamotsu Yagi, Tokyo, 2011, pp. 152-153 (for the present lot illustrated)
Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand, Complete Works Volume 2, 1940-1955, Paris, 2015, pp. 366-367 and 388-395
Sébastian Cherruet and Jacques Barsac, eds, Charlotte Perriand: Inventing a New World, exh. cat., Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2019, pp. 268-269
Galerie Downtown – François Laffanour, Living with Charlotte Perriand, Paris, 2019, pp. 11-12, 248-249, and 347
Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé: A Collection of Tamotsu Yagi, Venice, California, 2022, pp. 8-9 (for the present lot illustrated)
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