Jean Prouvé - Design: Online Auction London Tuesday, January 10, 2023 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Madame B., Nancy, France
    Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
    Phillips, London, 'Design', 27 April 2017, lot 59
    Acquired from the above by the present owner

  • Literature

    Galerie Jousse Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, p. 131
    Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre complète / Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 232-33 for the larger version
    Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Volume 1, Paris, 2007, p. 143

  • Artist Biography

    Jean Prouvé

    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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'Cité' table, model no. 500

designed 1930-1932, produced 1951-1952
Oak, painted steel.
71.2 x 100 x 68 cm (28 x 39 3/8 x 26 3/4 in.)
Produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France.

Estimate
£3,000 - 5,000 

Sold for £13,860

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