Inspired by avant-garde architects and his idea of design as a moral issue, influential 20th-century designer, architect, engineer, and teacher Jean Prouvé played a major role in the development of systems for mass production in the postwar Modernist period. From his beginnings as a blacksmith's apprentice, he gained an understanding of metal and its limitations, driving him to seek new materials and processes like steel, aluminum, and arc welding, producing prefabricated houses, building components, and furniture for the social sector.
- Collected by a major museum
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
- 2015
- Chamberlain-Prouvé at Gagosian Gallery in collaboration with Galerie Patrick Seguin, Galerie Patrick Seguin
- 2013
- A Passion for Jean Prouvé, the Laurence & Patrick Seguin Collection, Galerie Patrick SeguinCalder / Prouvé, in collaboration with Gagosian Gallery, Galerie Patrick Seguin
Total filling station, 1969
Inspired by avant-garde architects and his idea of design as a moral issue, influential 20th-century designer, architect, engineer, and teacher Jean Prouvé played a major role in the development of systems for mass production in the postwar Modernist period. From his beginnings as a blacksmith's apprentice, he gained an understanding of metal and its limitations, driving him to seek new materials and processes like steel, aluminum, and arc welding, producing prefabricated houses, building components, and furniture for the social sector.
- Collected by a major museum
- Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
