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Sector 5 · landmark

Pierre Jeanneret's House

The home of the cousin who actually stayed and built the city, facing the lake he would be scattered into.

Where it sits in the city
This room’s memory is still to be written. Any owner memory of Sector 5, the museum, or the Jeanneret furniture.

Then & now

Then
Built and lived in 1954-1965; restored and opened as a museum on 22 March 2017.
Who
Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier’s cousin and the resident architect who ran the project on the ground.
Before
Open sector land facing the new Sukhna Lake; often called the first house built in Chandigarh.

The OG move

Jeanneret designed the city’s civic furniture too, the cane-and-teak “Chandigarh chair.” From the 1990s the originals were thrown out as junk, bought cheap by dealers, and now sell for huge sums abroad: a single chair fetched about US$301,000 at auction (Phillips, 2008). India banned their export in 2011 as heritage.

A fact that reframes it

Per his will, Jeanneret’s ashes were immersed in Sukhna, the lake his house faced. The cousin who stayed to build Chandigarh dissolved into its water.

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Sources (3)
  1. House No. 57, Sector 5, facing Sukhna; Jeanneret lived here 1954-1965; museum opened 22 March 2017
    theheritagelab.in/pierre-jeanneret-house-chandigarh/; museumsofindia.org/museum/11844
  2. Ashes immersed in Sukhna per his will after his 1967 death
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Jeanneret
  3. The “Chandigarh chair” discarded then auctioned (per-lot record ~US$301,000, Phillips 2008); export banned 2011 as heritage
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandigarh_chair; invaluable.com (Jeanneret auction record)