FurnitureSwiss20th century
Basculant Armchair, Model No. B301
designed 1928, manufactured c. 1930
Artists
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret)Artist
Charlotte PerriandArtist
Pierre JeanneretArtist
Dimensions
66 × 63.8 × 68.6 cm (26 × 25 1/8 × 27 in.)
Provenance
Private Collection; [Galerie Francois Laffanour, Paris] sold; to David Teiger, Bernardsville, NJ (1998-2017); The Estate of David Teiger, gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2017.
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