Jean Prouvé Architect, Prefab Buildings Images, Houses, Furniture, French Studio, Photos
Jean Prouvé Architecture
Key Buildings + Designs – Information + Images for this 20th Century French architectural designers
post updated 11 Apr 2021
Jean Prouvé – Key Projects
Famous for innovative prefabricated houses, many located in France
Prefabricated tropical houses for French Colonies – ‘La Maison Tropicale’ buildings
Jean Prouvé. The Poetics of the Technical Object
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 23 Sep 2006 – 28 Jan 2007
Maison Tropicale Reconstruction – Design Museum Exhibition London, England, UK
Date: 2008
photo © Luke Hayes
Maison Tropicale adjacent to the Tate Modern art gallery building.
Maison du Peuple, Clichy, France
Dates built: 1935-39
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Fonds Jean Prouvé © VG Bildkunst, Bonn
In 1917, the Russian writer Viktor Shklovsky described the need for poets and artists to ‘make strange’, to interrupt our familiarity with language and form and thereby encourage us to perceive ordinary relationships anew. Made twenty years later as the joint effort of two architects, a highly inventive metal fabricator, an aviation engineer and an enlightened mayor, the “Maison du Peuple at Clichy suggests this same will to question familiar constructions, but this time by means of a building.
source: http://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/agenda/making-strange-the-poetics-of-the-maison-du-peuple-clichy
Jean Prouvé in front of his house
Date built: [ca. 1955]
The Prouvé family © VG Bildkunst, Bonn
Chair in Metal and Wood No. 305
Date: 1951
Collection Vitra Design Museum © VG Bildkunst, Bonn
Table for the Triennale di Milano
Date: 1951 (model 1949-50)
Collection Vitra Design Museum © VG Bildkunst, Bonn
Furniture Catalogue of the Ateliers Jean Prouve
Date: 1951
Collection Vitra Design Museum © VG Bildkunst, Bonn
Armchair Cité
Date: 1931-32
Collection Vitra Design Museum © VG Bildkunst, Bonn
Images + Information from Design Museum London 080208
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Jean Prouvé – Key Buildings
Jean Prouvé Designs, chronological:
Nobel Tower, La Défense, Paris, France
Date built: 1967
House Sahara
Date built: 1958
Pump Room of Cachat spring, Evian, France
Date built: 1956
Pavilion for aluminium centenary, Paris, France
Date built: 1954
Maison Métropole (aka Metropole House)
Dates built: 1951-52
Mame Printing Works, Tours, France
Date built: 1950
Maison Tropicale (aka Tropical House)
Date built: 1949
Maison du Peuple, Clichy, France
Dates built: 1935-39
Location: Paris, France, western Europe
20th Century French Designer Information
Former French architect
Jean at the CNAM, Paris (1964)
photo by E. Remondino. Private Collection © VG Bildkunst, Bonn
Jean (1901-84) was a French metal worker, self-taught architect and designer. He was born in Paris and his family belonged to a lively artistic circle. He is also designated as “constructor”. His main achievement was transferring manufacturing technology from industry to architecture, without losing aesthetic qualities. His design skills were not limited to one discipline. During his career he was involved in architectural design, industrial design, structural design and furniture design. He grew up surrounded by the ideals and energy of “l’École de Nancy,” the art collective to which his father belonged.
source: wikipedia
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