Jean Prouvé Buffet Mod. 152

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Historical Design
1945
Lacquered Steel, Oak

Jean Prouvé has become a leading figure in the history of design and has worked alongside Le Corbusier, Perriand, and Mallet-Stevens. The clean and pure lines of the buffet are characteristic of Prouvé's industrial style, combining formal and aesthetic elegance with technical innovation. His use of metal was inspired by the aeronautic industry. He adopted galvanized steel, folded and pressed, for his furniture, often combining it with wood.

Artist Biography

Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was a French metal worker and pioneering architect. He played a major role in the development of systems of mass production in post-war modernism. He began designing in 1924 after working in metallurgy and built his own factory in 1945 in Maxéville. Prouvé taught at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Matières and was elected a member of the Academy of Architecture in 1972. He built the Musée des Beaux Arts du Havre from 1951 to 1962.