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Auction archive: Lot number 222

Jean Prouvé

Design Evening Sale
28 Apr 2015
Estimate
£25,000 - £35,000
ca. US$37,369 - US$52,317
Price realised:
£31,250
ca. US$46,711
Auction archive: Lot number 222

Jean Prouvé

Design Evening Sale
28 Apr 2015
Estimate
£25,000 - £35,000
ca. US$37,369 - US$52,317
Price realised:
£31,250
ca. US$46,711
Beschreibung:

Jean Prouvé Rare desk, designed for the offices of Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité S.A., Paris 1934 Painted bent steel, aluminium, painted plywood. 78.1 x 140.3 x 83.8 cm (30 3/4 x 55 1/4 x 32 7/8 in.) Manufactured by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé Nancy, France.
Provenance Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité S.A., Paris, 1934 Literature 'L’Immeuble de la C.P.D.E.', Arte et Industrie, January 1936, p. 15 Galerie Jousse Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé Paris, 1998, p. 52 Peter Sulzer Jean Prouvé Œuvre complète / Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, p. 73 Laurence Allégret and Valérie Vaudou eds., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, pp. 62, 230 for images and an Ateliers Jean Prouvé prospectus Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé Vol. 2, Paris, 2007, pp. 330, 332-33, 501 for images and an Ateliers Jean Prouvé prospectus 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

Auction archive: Lot number 222
Auction:
Datum:
28 Apr 2015
Auction house:
Phillips
London
Beschreibung:

Jean Prouvé Rare desk, designed for the offices of Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité S.A., Paris 1934 Painted bent steel, aluminium, painted plywood. 78.1 x 140.3 x 83.8 cm (30 3/4 x 55 1/4 x 32 7/8 in.) Manufactured by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé Nancy, France.
Provenance Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité S.A., Paris, 1934 Literature 'L’Immeuble de la C.P.D.E.', Arte et Industrie, January 1936, p. 15 Galerie Jousse Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé Paris, 1998, p. 52 Peter Sulzer Jean Prouvé Œuvre complète / Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, p. 73 Laurence Allégret and Valérie Vaudou eds., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, pp. 62, 230 for images and an Ateliers Jean Prouvé prospectus Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé Vol. 2, Paris, 2007, pp. 330, 332-33, 501 for images and an Ateliers Jean Prouvé prospectus 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

Auction archive: Lot number 222
Auction:
Datum:
28 Apr 2015
Auction house:
Phillips
London
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