Jean Prouvé
Subtitle: Maison Demontable Metropole Demountable House, 1949
Publisher: Galerie Patrick Seguin
Published: Sep 27, 2016
Language: fre; eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9782909187174
Description: Jean Prouvé began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned Prouvé to design inexpensive, effective housing for the newly homeless, prompting him to perfect his patented axial portal frame to build easily constructed demountable houses. Few of these groundbreaking structures were built, making them exceedingly rare today--prompting Galerie Patrick Seguin's tireless efforts over the past 27 years to preserve and promote these important designs. The gallery owns the largest collection of Prouvé's demountables, 22 in total. This volume focuses on his Metropole Demountable House, and is luxuriously illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs.
Notes: Source title: Jean Prouvé: Maison Demontable Metropole Demountable House, 1949 (Jean Prouvé Architecture)