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Wall in black lacquered tubular metal with a steerable sconces, model Jean Prouvé * vintage 1950 twentieth century.
This wall is in good condition, it is in its own juice. It is not signed. Electricity has been redone.
A note: traces of oxidation and pitting on metal, lacquer shortages, time wear, see photos.
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is a French architect and designer. Jean Prouvé is the son of painter and sculptor Victor Prouvé. He apprenticed to the ironworker Emile Robert in Enghien, then in 1919 at Szabo. After his military service, he set up a workshop in 1924 in Nancy. His early accomplishments ironwork for private buildings: Hotel Thiers Nancy, fronts Parisian stores. He understands that the traditional ironwork lived and that his path joins architecture and industry: design, design and produce furniture, architectural elements, later houses. It creates SA Jean Prouvé Workshops in 1931, produces furniture for sanatoriums Plateau d'Assy, and from 1935, designed the House of the People in Clichy with Eugene Beaudouin, Marcel Lods and Vladimir Bodiansky, considered precursor modern architecture. His achievements folded sheet are exemplary and are now among the most quoted furniture twentieth century. He collaborates with the most prestigious architects of the buildings that bear the mark of his intervention. The end of Prouvé's career is marked by experimentation with new materials. This is also the time for international recognition and success stories: Technical success for the structure of the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy (Michel and Pierre Parat Andrault architects, 1978) or tower radar of Ouessant. It was also a humanist boss, even utopian. Innovative in any case: in Nancy, then Maxéville, granting its employees paid leave before 1936 and promoter of sharing.
