Jean Prouvé '6 x 9' demountable house 1944-1945 Painted steel, corrugated aluminium, painted wood, glass. 300 x 900 x 680 cm (118 1/8 x 354 3/8 x 267 3/4 in.) Manufactured by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé Nancy, France.
Provenance Recreational watersports centre, Messein, France Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris Exhibited ‘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 Literature 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. Video JEAN PROUVÉ '6 x 9' demountable house, 1944-1945 "Architecture should leave no trace on the landscape." Jean Prouvé's 6 x 9 demountable house is an icon of modern architecture and design. Originally designed and built in 1944-45, it will be installed in our galleries at 30 Berkeley Square and offered in our Design Evening Sale on 28 April. Courtesy of Galerie Patrick Seguin Catalogue Essay The Galerie Patrick Seguin during 2015 will release a five volume set of monographs, dedicated to the demountable architecture of Jean Prouvé which will include a special 96 paged monograph on the ‘6 x 9' demountable house. The five volumes will include the following: Métropole demountable house; Jours Meilleurs demountable house; Villejuif demountable house; ‘6 x 9' demountable house; ‘4 x 4' Military Shelter. Jean Prouvé was a twentieth century pioneer and an innovative designer of furniture and architecture. Prouvé was the godson of Emile Gallé and his father was a founding member of the Ecole de Nancy. From the beginning Prouvé was imbued with a creative and industrious philosophy from a group whose principal aim was the democratic alliance between art and industry. Determined to be a man of his time, Prouvé explored all the current technical resources in metalworking, abandoning wrought iron for bent sheet steel. In the 1930s he produced metal joinery, furniture, architectural components and demountable buildings, all of which were from a limited production. Prouvé stated that ‘in their construction there is no difference between a piece of furniture and a house’, and he developed his philosophy on construction further based upon functionality and rational fabrication. Free of all artifice, the result was aesthetically concurrent with the doctrine of the Union des Artistes Modernes of which Prouvé was a founding member. Members of U.A.M. also included the French pioneers Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand Post-war furniture and architecture, which was produced and often intended for public use applied Prouvé’s aforementioned ideas. Furthermore these works included astute assembly systems for durable structures, buildings and furniture all
Jean Prouvé '6 x 9' demountable house 1944-1945 Painted steel, corrugated aluminium, painted wood, glass. 300 x 900 x 680 cm (118 1/8 x 354 3/8 x 267 3/4 in.) Manufactured by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé Nancy, France.
Provenance Recreational watersports centre, Messein, France Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris Exhibited ‘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 Literature 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. Video JEAN PROUVÉ '6 x 9' demountable house, 1944-1945 "Architecture should leave no trace on the landscape." Jean Prouvé's 6 x 9 demountable house is an icon of modern architecture and design. Originally designed and built in 1944-45, it will be installed in our galleries at 30 Berkeley Square and offered in our Design Evening Sale on 28 April. Courtesy of Galerie Patrick Seguin Catalogue Essay The Galerie Patrick Seguin during 2015 will release a five volume set of monographs, dedicated to the demountable architecture of Jean Prouvé which will include a special 96 paged monograph on the ‘6 x 9' demountable house. The five volumes will include the following: Métropole demountable house; Jours Meilleurs demountable house; Villejuif demountable house; ‘6 x 9' demountable house; ‘4 x 4' Military Shelter. Jean Prouvé was a twentieth century pioneer and an innovative designer of furniture and architecture. Prouvé was the godson of Emile Gallé and his father was a founding member of the Ecole de Nancy. From the beginning Prouvé was imbued with a creative and industrious philosophy from a group whose principal aim was the democratic alliance between art and industry. Determined to be a man of his time, Prouvé explored all the current technical resources in metalworking, abandoning wrought iron for bent sheet steel. In the 1930s he produced metal joinery, furniture, architectural components and demountable buildings, all of which were from a limited production. Prouvé stated that ‘in their construction there is no difference between a piece of furniture and a house’, and he developed his philosophy on construction further based upon functionality and rational fabrication. Free of all artifice, the result was aesthetically concurrent with the doctrine of the Union des Artistes Modernes of which Prouvé was a founding member. Members of U.A.M. also included the French pioneers Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand Post-war furniture and architecture, which was produced and often intended for public use applied Prouvé’s aforementioned ideas. Furthermore these works included astute assembly systems for durable structures, buildings and furniture all
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