Le Corbusier
La Chaise de la Racine

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Artist Le Corbusier(French, born Switzerland, 1887–1965)French, born Switzerland, 1887–1965

CultureFrench

Titles

La Chaise de la Racine
The Root Chair

Datebefore 1956

PlaceFrance

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 7/16 × 8 7/16 in. (21.4 × 21.4 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 11 in. (35.4 × 27.9 cm)

Credit LineThe Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection

Object number91.818

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Department

Photography

Special Collections

Allan Chasanoff Photographic Collection

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionIt was surely with tongue in cheek that the great architect and designer Le Corbusier, famed for his innovative forms and use of nontraditional materials, photographed this cast-off clump of root and christened it The Root Chair, as if it were his latest creation—a “readymade” chaise longue.
ProvenanceAllan Chasanoff, New York; given to MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

lower left below image in ink " La Chaise de la Racine "
verso in pencil nearly entire surface of sheet a history of existing photograph with a signature an date " Charles H. Traub/July 1987 "

lower right corner below image in ink " Le Corbusier ", see also Inscriptions

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