Today the oeuvre of French architect and designer Jean Prouvé is considered essential to the history of twentieth century design. Prouvé’s furniture designs were determined by the interior spaces the pieces would inhabit, and were developed in tandem with Modernist principles of the “art of living” and “harmonious habitat” that were so characteristic of the time.
This exquisitely produced and comprehensive volume, put together by Paris’ Galerie Patrick Seguin, is a new and enriched version of the original monograph published in 2007 to fill a hole in the previously existing scholarship, most of which focused on Prouvé’s architecture. It includes a collection of interviews with collectors and design professionals, a detailed biography of Prouvé by his daughter, Catherine Prouvé, and essays by design historian Raymond Guidot and architecture historian Catherine Coley.
The new Jean Prouvé monograph will be more extensive (750 pages) than the first version. It will have a similar format with newly designed graphics as well as a new cover.
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L’architecte et designer Jean Prouvé est reconnu comme l’un des pionniers de la production innovante du mobilier et de l’architecture du XX° siècle. Son esprit d’avant-garde, doublé de préoccupations humanistes, conserve aujourd’hui toute son actualité.
Le coffret en deux volumes, de plus de 750 pages, est une réédition largement enrichie de l’ouvrage de référence, désormais épuisé, édité par la Galerie Patrick Seguin en 2007.
Cette nouvelle publication, à la fois didactique et complète, présente, par typologie, l’ensemble de l’oeuvre du créateur dans le domaine du mobilier mais également de l’architecture. En effet, un nouveau chapitre entièrement consacré à sa production architecturale révèle toute l’étendue et la richesse du travail de Jean Prouvé.