Jean Prouve: Objects and Furniture Design By Architects

New hardcover with no marks or flaws; no sign of handling or wear. Profusely illustrated. Text is in English.

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As a young man, Jean Prouv (1901-1984) longed to become an engineer, but as his family could not afford the requisite training, at 15 he was apprenticed to a master blacksmith in Paris. Prouv opened his own smithy in Nancy in 1923, and shortly thereafter produced his first furniture made from thin sheet steel. Right away, Prouv 's sparse, geometric aesthetic appealed to avant garde architects such as Robert Mallet-Stevens and Le Corbusier, who commissioned ironwork from him, and in 1929, invited Prouv to join the new Union des Artistes Modernes, a group of artists and designers championing the Modernist style. In the early 1940s, due to the scarcity of steel during World War II, Prouv began working mostly with wood. Besides creating furniture, he also explored designs for pre-fabricated housing, constructing dwellings for the homeless. But by the 1960s, Prouv 's austere style seemed pass , and he fell foul of fashion's whims; as a self-taught designer he was also routinely excluded by the architectural establishment. His reputation may have further suffered from his own appetite for collaboration, which could make his exact role in architectural projects difficult to identify. Happily, this state of affairs changed in the 1990s when Prouv emerged as an unlikely auction star, as his sensibility chimed again with the activities of contemporary neo-Modernists like Jasper Morrison and Konstantin Grcic. This new monograph in Pol grafa's new series on the furniture and objects designed by the twentieth century's most important architects features drawings and photographs of each featured design.

Product Info

ISBN: 8434311445

ISBN-13: 9788434311442

Publisher: Ediciones Poligrafa

Year: 2007

Type: New

Binding: Hardcover

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