No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection
No Detail is Small: Art & Design from The Tamotsu Yagi Collection
Charlotte Perriand
Console from Maison de la Tunisie
Auction Closed
June 5, 10:36 PM GMT
Estimate
180,000 - 240,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Charlotte Perriand
Console from Maison de la Tunisie
circa 1952
pine, lacquered metal, laminated wood, aluminum, plastic drawer
with the original metal corner wall bracket
the metal elements produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France
29 x 109 ¾ x 16 ¾ in. (73.7 x 278.8 x 42.5 cm)
Maison de la Tunisie, Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris, circa 1952
Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1999
Mary McLeod, Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living, New York, 2003, pp. 141-143 and 228
Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Un art d’habiter, Paris, 2005, pp. 353-354
Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Paris and New York, 2007, vol. 1, p. 197
Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand: Complete Works, Volume 2, 1940-1955, 2017, pp. 370-372, 375, 378, and 380-381
Galerie Downtown – François Laffanour, Living with Charlotte Perriand, Paris, 2019, pp. 186-189 and 345
Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé: A Collection of Tamotsu Yagi, Venice, California, 2022, pp. 6-8 (for the present lot illustrated)
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