Live Auction 2500DeLorenzo: Thirty Years, Day Sale
LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)
Lot 99

LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)

AN OAK AND PAINTED METAL STAIRCASE FROM UNITÉ D'HABITATION, BRIEY, FRANCE, CIRCA 1960

Closed15 December 2010

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LE CORBUSIER (1887-1965)
An Oak and Painted Metal Staircase from Unité d'Habitation, Briey, France, circa 1960
manufactured by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé
143 in. (363.5 cm.) high, 27 in. (68.5 cm.) wide (3)

Philippe Jousse, Paris.

Specialist note

cf. M. Bartolucci, 'Utopia lost', Metropolis, March 1994, p. 49 for an illustration of other staircases of this design in the Unité d'Habitation in Firminy, France.