How a Chair Designed for Civil Servants Landed in a Kardashian‘s Dining Room
The trash-to-treasure journey of Pierre Jeanneret‘s beloved Chandigarh chair.
When Swiss architect Pierre Jeanneret devised a teak-and-cane chair in the 1950s, his reasoning was simple: The people needed seats. The design was just one of several by Jeanneret that would be produced by the thousands for Chandigarh, India, the utopian city created by his cousin Le Corbusier.
