Recreational watersports centre, Messein, France
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
‘C'est la vie. Press photography since 1940’, Swiss National Museum, Zurich, 11 January- 22 April, 2012
‘A passion for Jean Prouvé From Furniture to Architecture’, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, 6 April-8 September, 2013, for the two axial portal structural support frames
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre complète / Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 46-53, for examples of demountable houses in other sizes
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, 6 x 6 Demoutable House, Paris, 2013, passim for the 6 x 6 example
Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli and Galerie Patrick Seguin, A Passion for Jean Prouvé: From Furniture to Architecture: The Laurence and Patrick Seguin Collection, exh. cat., Paris, 2013, pp. 270-75 for the two axial portal structural support frames
The price includes 9 museum crates that accompany the house as well as a mock-up model at 1/30th the size, a stop motion DVD of the reassembly, the instructions for reassembly, and a complete file with reproductions of documents from the period, sketches and in situ photographs of the architecture.
The price includes a head of the project and 1 qualified worker for 2 days (including wages and social welfare) to assist the reassembly of the house on site. The client will only pay for travel expenses (economy tickets unless the travel is beyond 10 hours flight), lodging and meals of the reassembly personnel during the 2 days. In order to limit costs, the client will provide 2 handlers, in addition, to assist the reassembly. The costs of transport, customs, transit of the house to the site of reconstruction, site preparation and architect consultation will be taken care by the buyer.
French • 1901 - 1984
Jean Prouvé believed in design as a vehicle for improvement. His manufactory Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, located in Nancy, France, produced furniture for schools, factories and municipal projects, both within France and in locations as far flung as the Congo. Though he designed for the masses, pieces such as his "Potence" lamps and "Standard" chairs are among the most iconic fixtures in sophisticated, high-design interiors today. Collectors connect with his utilitarian, austere designs that strip materials down to the bare minimum without compromising on proportion or style.
Prouvé grew up in Nancy, France, the son of Victor Prouvé, an artist and co-founder of the École de Nancy, and Marie Duhamel, a pianist. He apprenticed to master blacksmiths in Paris and opened a small wrought iron forge in Nancy. However it was sheet steel that ultimately captured Prouvé's imagination, and he ingeniously adapted it to furniture, lighting and even pre-fabricated houses, often collaborating with other design luminaries of the period, such as Robert Mallet-Stevens, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand.
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