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Jean Prouvé ‘Cafétéria’ demountable table, model no. 511, from the Cafétéria des Arts et Métiers, Cité internationale universitaire, Paris c. 1953 Painted bent sheet steel, painted tubular metal, oak veneered-wood. 71.5 x 86 x 86 cm. (28 x 33 7/8 x 33 7/8 in.) Manufactured by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé France.
Provenance Cafétéria des Arts et Métiers, Cité internationale universitaire, Paris; Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris Literature Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé Paris, 1998, p. 83 and p. 85; Peter Sulzer Jean Prouvé Œuvre Complète, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, p. 150, figs. 1123,2-1123,3 and p. 151, fig. 1130.2; Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé Volume 1, Paris, 2007, p. 83; Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé Volume 2, Paris, 2007, p. 407 and pp. 456-57 Artist Bio 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 View More Works