Jean Prouvé Console
Price on request
Historical Design
circa 1950
Metal, Wood
400 x 81 x 48.5 cm
157.5 x 31.9 x 19.1 in
Jean Prouvé has become a leading figure in the history of design and has worked alongside Le Corbusier, Perriand, and Mallet-Stevens. Famous for applying industrial technology and processes to architecture and interior design without sacrificing aesthetic qualities, he developed the technique of the flattened tube which increases the resistance of the structure of his furniture. This console was originally part of a front-row stationary amphitheatre table. Prouvé revolutionised interior design in French universities through rationalised, ergonomic, and resistant equipment that have become iconic and collectible items. This console comes with its original, professionally cleaned wooden top and a new custom-made one in accordance with the original model.
Literature:
P. Sulzer, Jean Prouvé oeuvre complète, volume 3 : 1944-1954, Bâle 2005, p.251 n°1235.20.
Galerie Patrick Seguin (ed.), Jean Prouvé, Paris 2017, p. 239 for a related model.
Location: Paris
Artist
Jean Prouvé
Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was a French metal worker and pioneering architect. He played a major role in the development of systems of mass production in post-war modernism. He began designing in 1924 after working in metallurgy and built his own factory in 1945 in Maxéville. Prouvé taught at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Matières and was elected a member of the Academy of Architecture in 1972. He built the Musée des Beaux Arts du Havre from 1951 to 1962.
