Ferembal, Nancy, France
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
'Jean Prouvé', Galerie Jousse Seguin, Paris, 1998
'Jean Prouvé: Modernisme à Rebours', Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 1998
'Jean Prouvé', curated by Galerie Patrick Seguin, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, 2003
Galeries Jousse Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, illustrated pp. 192-93, figs. 1-21 for the exhibition installation and construction of the lodge, pp. 194, 196-97, 207, for details, p. 214
Barbara Steiner, Jean Prouvé: Modernisme à Rebours, exh. cat., Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, 1998, p. 6 for a drawing, illustrated pp. 7, 44-45
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre complète / Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, pp. 258-60 figs. 850,1-12 for drawings and the prototype, illustrated pp. 302-3, figs. 943,1-2
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre complète / Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, illustrated p. 103, fig. 1079, 4
Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, Volume 1, Paris, 2007, illustrated pp. 94-95, 98-99
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé and Jean Nouvel: Ferembal House, Paris, 2011, illustrated pp. 123-24, 158-59, 200, 203, p. 125 for an example of the 4 x 4m military barrack used in Jean Prouvé’s garden
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Volume 2, Paris, 2007, p. 574 for an example of the 4 x 4m military barrack used in Jean Prouvé’s garden
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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