Pierre Jeanneret

Pierre Jeanneret is one of the prolific designers and architects in the modern world. Spending much of his career working closely with the architect (and cousin) Le Corbusier, the two became some of the most recognized names in the design world, particularly in the postwar era. Jeanneret approached design with an intellectual focus, bringing a more humanistic focus that would become a hallmark of modernist design. Similar to Prouvé, Jeanneret was particularly interested in innovative materials and construction methods, and designed pre-fabricated structures to support the postwar recovery.

The Le Corbusier and Jeanneret studio worked on several high-profile projects throughout Europe, but perhaps most notably on a massive urban planning project in Chandigarh, India in the early 1950s. Le Corbusier and Jeanneret designed a state capital from the ground up – from the urban masterplan, to the public buildings, down to the furnishings inside them. Le Corbusier abandoned the project part way through, leaving Jeanneret as the chief architect and designer. Many of the furniture designed for these buildings are Jeanneret’s most iconic today, after their rediscovery in the early 2000s by notable Parisian galleries such as Galerie 54, François Laffanour, Philippe Jousse, and Patrick Seguin.

The partnership between Jeanneret, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand made them some of the most influential and best known names in the history of design.