Pierre Jeanneret Student Desk with Blue Painted Top, Panjab University, Chandigarh, c. 1960

Designed by Pierre Jeanneret for the residential buildings of Panjab University in Chandigarh, this student desk is an example of the X-leg writing table produced for the university's hostel program. Its original blue-painted top remains intact, carrying layers of wear, paint loss, handwritten notes, names, equations, and drawings from decades of student use.

Constructed in solid teak, the desk features an unpainted X-leg base with a lower stretcher shelf. Room inventory markings, including R-98, HT34, HN 1R, and R5, remain visible across the painted top and frame.

The surface is central to the piece's character: a working academic object transformed over time into a record of institutional life. Offered as found. Lightly cleaned and unrestored. The written blue surface is preserved intact.