Title & Author:

Jean Prouvé / introduction by Mathias Remmele ; edited by Sandra Dachs, Patricia de Muga, and Laura Garcia Hintze ; [translations, Barbara Hauss (introduction), Sue Brownbridge].

Publication:

Barcelona : Polı́grafa ; New York, N.Y. : D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers [distributor], ©2007.

Description:

127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.

Series:

Objects and furniture design

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (page 127).
Introduction -- Ceiling lights -- Steel pieces -- Armchair for Louis Wittmann -- Reclining armchair -- Reclining chair -- Table -- Furnishings for the Cité Universitaire de Nancy -- Chair no. 4 -- Bed 17 -- Desk for one -- Desk for the ENP in Metz -- Garden furniture for the pavilion of the U.A.M. -- Guéridon table -- Standard desks -- Kangaroo chairs -- Tipping chair -- Cupboard and sideboard -- Open-worked panel -- Lecture hall furniture -- Antony 356 chair -- Desks for the library -- In the Maison de la Medecine -- Chairs 352 and 353 -- Bergère lecture hall -- Chair 805 for children -- Library shelving -- Stools -- Stacking table -- Compass table -- Chronology.

Summary:

As a young man, Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) longed to become an engineer, but as his family could not afford the requisite training, at 15 he was apprenticed to a master blacksmith in Paris. Prouvé opened his own smithy in Nancy in 1923, and shortly thereafter produced his first furniture made from thin sheet steel. Right away, Prouvé's sparse, geometric aesthetic appealed to avant-garde architects such as Robert Mallet-Stevens and Le Corbusier, who commissioned ironwork from him, and in 1929, invited Prouvé to join the new Union des Artistes Modernes, a group of artists and designers championing the Modernist style. In the early 1940s, due to the scarcity of steel during World War II, Prouvé began working mostly with wood. Besides creating furniture, he also explored designs for pre-fabricated housing, constructing dwellings for the homeless. But by the 1960s, Prouvé's austere style seemed passé, and he fell foul of fashion's whims; as a self-taught designer he was also routinely excluded by the architectural establishment. His reputation may have further suffered from his own appetite for collaboration, which could make his exact role in architectural projects difficult to identify. Happily, this state of affairs changed in the 1990s when Prouvé emerged as an unlikely auction star, as his sensibility chimed again with the activities of contemporary neo-Modernists like Jasper Morrison and Konstantin Grcic. This new monograph in Poligrafa's new series on the furniture and objects designed by the twentieth century's most important architects features drawings and photographs of each featured design.

Resources:
TOC

ISBN:

9788434311442 (English ed.)
8434311445

Subject:

Prouvé, Jean Catalogs.
Prouvé, Jean.
Furniture design France History 20th century Catalogs.
Architect-designed furniture France History 20th century Catalogs.
Meubles Design Histoire 20e siècle Catalogues France.
Meubles conçus par des architectes Histoire 20e siècle Catalogues France.
Architect-designed furniture.
Furniture design.
France.

Form/genre:

Catalogs.
History.

Added entries:

Dachs, Sandra.
Muga, Patricia de.
Hintze, Laura García.
Objects and furniture design by architects.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325649
Call No.: 325649
Copy: 1
Status: Available