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"Onde" Model Panel Designed by Jean Prouvé
By Jean Prouvé
Located in lyon, FR
Onde" model panel designed by Jean Prouvé Aluminium and wood structure. Circa 1950. Condition
Category

Vintage 1950s Cameroonian Mid-Century Modern Architectural Elements

Materials

Aluminum

"Onde" Model Panel Designed by Jean Prouvé
"Onde" Model Panel Designed by Jean Prouvé
H 106.7 in W 69.3 in D 4.34 in
"Onde" Model Panel Designed by Jean Prouvé
By Jean Prouvé
Located in lyon, FR
Onde" model panel designed by Jean Prouvé Aluminium and wood structure. Circa 1950. Condition
Category

Vintage 1950s Cameroonian Mid-Century Modern Architectural Elements

Materials

Aluminum

"Onde" Model Panel Designed by Jean Prouvé
"Onde" Model Panel Designed by Jean Prouvé
H 106.7 in W 69.3 in D 4.34 in
Onde" Model Panel Designed by Jean Prouvé
By Jean Prouvé
Located in lyon, FR
Onde" model panel designed by Jean Prouvé Aluminium and wood structure. Circa 1950. Condition
Category

Vintage 1950s Cameroonian Mid-Century Modern Architectural Elements

Materials

Aluminum

Onde" Model Panel Designed by Jean Prouvé
Onde" Model Panel Designed by Jean Prouvé
H 106.7 in W 69.3 in D 4.34 in
Set of 3 panels model "Onde" designed by Jean Prouvé
By Jean Prouvé
Located in lyon, FR
Set of 3 modules of Cameroonian habitats designed by Jean Prouvé Circa 1950. Condition: the panels
Category

Vintage 1950s Cameroonian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art

Materials

Aluminum

Pair Of Jean Prouvé "ondes" Panel
By Jean Prouvé
Located in Auribeau sur Siagne, FR
FIVE AVAILABLE
Category

Vintage 1960s Screens and Room Dividers

Materials

Aluminum

Pair Of Jean Prouvé "ondes" Panel
Pair Of Jean Prouvé "ondes" Panel
H 112.21 in W 70.08 in D 7.09 in
Aluminium Sun Shutter by Jean Prouvé, France, 1960s
By Jean Prouvé
Located in Antwerp, BE
Jean Prouvé; Sun Shutters; Modernism; Sunshutter; Facade Panel; Paris; Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé
Category

Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Architectural Elements

Materials

Aluminum

Jean Prouve Sliding Panels
By Jean Prouvé
Located in Paris, FR
a pair of sliding ondes panels in aluminum and wood of Jean Prouvé circa 1964 for the class-rooms
Category

Vintage 1960s Cameroonian Architectural Elements

Jean Prouve Sliding Panels
Jean Prouve Sliding Panels
H 106.3 in D 4.73 in
Jean Prouve Sliding Panels
By Jean Prouvé
Located in Paris, FR
a pair of sliding ondes panels in aluminum and wood of Jean Prouvé circa 1964 for the class-rooms
Category

Vintage 1960s Cameroonian Panelling

Materials

Aluminum

Jean Prouve Sliding Panels
Jean Prouve Sliding Panels
H 112.21 in W 70.08 in D 7.09 in
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Jean Prouvé for sale on 1stDibs

Engineer and metalsmith, self-taught designer and architect, manufacturer and teacher, Jean Prouvé was a key force in the evolution of 20th-century French design, introducing a style that combined economy of means and stylistic chic. Along with his frequent client and collaborator Le Corbusier and others, Prouvé, using his practical skills and his understanding of industrial materials, steered French modernism onto a path that fostered principled, democratic approaches to architecture and design.

Prouvé was born in Nancy, a city with a deep association with the decorative arts. (It is home, for example, to the famed Daum crystal manufactory.) His father, Victor Prouvé, was a ceramist and a friend and co-worker of such stars of the Art Nouveau era as glass artist Émile Gallé and furniture maker Louis Majorelle. Jean Prouvé apprenticed to a blacksmith, studied engineering, and produced ironwork for such greats of French modernism as the architect Robert Mallet-Stevens. In 1931, he opened the firm Atelier Prouvé. There, he perfected techniques in folded metal that resulted in his Standard chair (1934) and other designs aimed at institutions such as schools and hospitals.

During World War II, Prouvé was a member of the French Resistance, and his first postwar efforts were devoted to designing metal pre-fab housing for those left homeless by the conflict. In the 1950s, Prouvé would unite with Charlotte Perriand and Pierre Jeanneret (Le Corbusier’s cousin) on numerous design projects. In 1952, he and Perriand and artist Sonia Delaunay created pieces for the Cité Internationale Universitaire foundation in Paris, which included the colorful, segmented bookshelves that are likely Prouvé’s and Perriand’s best-known designs. The pair also collaborated on 1954’s Antony line of furniture, which again, like the works on 1stDibs, demonstrated a facility for combining material strength with lightness of form.

Prouvé spent his latter decades mostly as a teacher. His work has recently won new appreciation: in 2008 the hotelier Andre Balazs purchased at auction (hammer price: just under $5 million) the Maison Tropicale, a 1951 architectural prototype house that could be shipped flat-packed, and was meant for use by Air France employees in the Congo. Other current Prouvé collectors include Brad Pitt, Larry Gagosian, Martha Stewart and the fashion designer Marc Jacobs.

The rediscovery of Jean Prouvé — given not only the aesthetic and practical power of his designs but also the social conscience his work represents — marks one of the signal “good” aspects of collecting vintage 20th-century design. An appreciation of Prouvé is an appreciation of human decency.

Find antique Jean Prouvé chairs, tables, chaise longues and other furniture on 1stDibs.