Furniture from Chandigarh, India

The story of the chairs, desks, and tables of Chandigarh begins not in a grand architect’s studio in Paris, but in the bureaucratic basements of a new, hopeful nation. For decades, it was a tale of quiet, institutional amnesia. Thousands of pieces of furniture, crafted from robust Indian teak and simple cane, were left to languish in the damp, forgotten storerooms of government buildings. These were not just old office furnishings; they were the living soul of a utopian urban experiment, designed to equip the very people who would govern a new, independent India. But to the civil servants of t...