Chandigarh furniture designed by Jeanneret features in Cambridge and London auctions
In 1950, the Swiss artist, architect and designer Pierre Jeanneret (1896-1967) joined his cousin Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (who assumed the pseudonym Le Corbusier) to create a new capital of Punjab.
The Chandigarh project, the first planned city after Indian independence in 1947, involved creatin…