No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection

No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection

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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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