Jean Prouvé, highlights
Subtitle: 1917-1944
By: Peter Sulzer ; recent photographs, Erika Sulzer-Kleinemeier ; [translated from French into English, Gerald B. Binding].
Contributors: Sulzer-Kleinemeier, Erika.
Publisher: Birkhauser-Publishers for Architecture
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Basel; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 171
Subjects: Prouvé, Jean -- Catalogs.; Architecture -- France -- History -- 20th century -- Catalogs.; Architectural drawing -- France -- Catalogs.
Genres: Catalogs.
Description: "Jean Prouve was one of the most remarkable constructors of the 20th century. His work is a remarkable combination of creative imagination, technical skill and forward-looking enterprise. He worked for important architects like Mallet-Stevens, Garnier, Lods and Jeanneret."

"In this volume of Highlights, covering the phase from 1917-1944, the reader will find, among other things, early objects in polished stainless steel, glazed doors, sash windows, early funiture, showcases, first patents; doors in curved sheet steel and doors mounted on tubing, the Town Hall of Boulogne-Billancourt, the Flying Club at Buc, the Maison du peuple at Clichy, the most outstanding examples of his furniture designs of the 1930s and 1940s, and the early prefabricated buildings."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171).