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Conceived by two devotees of design and architecture who have visited India several times annually since 1999, Eric Touchaleaume and Gerald Moreau, this book - destined to become a work of reference - illustrates and documents the architectural projects undertaken in India by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret. In 1951, Jawaharlal Nehru, prime minister of India, chose Le Corbusier to design and build a new capital for the Punjab: Chandigarh, symbol of a free, independent and modern India. Le Corbusier designed the master plan for the city and for the civic buildings of its Capitol, the General Assembly, Secretariat and High Court. He suggested that his cousin Pierre Jeanneret should work on site to oversee the construction of the buildings. Le Corbusier also designed the Mill Owners' Association building, two luxury villas and a museum for wealthy clients in Ahmedabad, capital of the state of Gujerat. Pierre Jeanneret also worked independently of Le Corbusier, and lived in India from 1951 to 1965. Appointed chief architect to the state of Punjab and director of the Chandigarh College of Architecture, his personal work was highly distinguished, embracing housing, schools, university campuses, libraries and more. With the humanism that defined his character, and with his constant concern for putting beauty and comfort within the reach of all, Jeanneret excelled in the creation of modest buildings, poetic and ecological structures using local materials: baked earth bricks in variety, pebbles from nearby rivers, white or blue lime-washed walls. In addition to his architectural projects, Pierre Jeanneret also worked with a team of young Indian assistant designers to design a range of 'Low-Cost Furniture' for the private and public buildings of Chandigarh, consisting of extremely simple and elegant pieces in teak with cane work or cotton upholstery. In this as in all his work in India, he drew his inspiration from traditional local craftsmanship, which he combined with the approach he had developed in his earlier work in France, alongside Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouve. Prouve later paid the following tribute to his friend: 'Using the simplest of means, he shyly offered up wonders, both of architecture and of furniture.' Text in English and French. SELLING POINTS: • Offers for the first time a detailed survey of the furniture designed for the new city of Chandigarh 400 colour and 380 b/w illustrations

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