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Banquette (1956) designed by Jean Prouvé and produced by Ateliers Jean Prouvé

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Jean Prouvé, Cité Chair, 1932

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Jean Prouvé, Maison Les Jours Meilleurs.

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Atelier Jean Prouvé

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Since the 1990s Jean Prouvé’s furniture and mobile houses have fetched enormous results at global auctions that went hand in hand with a general reappraisal of his work. One of the major galleries dealing with Prouvé originals is Galerie Patrick Seguin in Paris whose namesake ranks among the leading experts in everything related to the engineer’s furniture and mobile architecture. Therefore it is no wonder that the present (sort of) catalogue raisonné of Prouvé’s furniture was published by the latter. The two volume set is an updated version of the initial 2007 edition and features a comprehensive catalogue of Prouvé’s furniture in volume one and a selection of interiors furnished with his key pieces as well as an overview of his prefab, movable houses in volume two.

Organized along ten categories the first volume provides a comprehensive overview of the sheer variety of Prouvé’s furniture: chairs, armchairs, office chairs, stools and benches, desks, school furniture, tables, lights, beds as well as interior furnishings and storage are testament to his broad interest in solutions for basically every aspect of furniture design. Each design is presented on the basis of a piece from the Seguin collection representing the most original version of each piece, supplemented by the editors with drawings, vintage photographs, advertisements and a brief history of the genesis and specifications of it. Preceding the catalogue are interviews with Prouvé’s daughter Catherine, Renzo Piano and design historian Raymond Guidot who offer not only insights into his personality and design ethos but also the intrinsic logics of his designs that resulted from Prouvé’s natural understanding of the material properties of metal and wood.

Of course the present tomes are also gorgeously designed and contain a wealth of profound information about every single piece of Prouvé furniture. What’s more is that through the countless detail photographs the reader gets a real understanding of the construction of each piece and how these sprung from the mind of one of the most original designers/engineers/architects of the 20th century. Worth every penny!

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