$21,250
Jean Prouvé
Flavigny dining table
Ateliers Jean Prouvé France, 1945 / c.
1970 enameled steel, terrazzo 81 w x 29¾ d x 29¾ h in (206 x 76 x 76 cm)
result: $21,250
This form was originally designed for the Flavigny Sanatorium in 1945 and put into wider production in the 1950s. The table tops of the original models were fragile and in the 1970s the design was modified to accomodate a thicker, more sturdy composite stone table top.
provenance: Delorenzo 1950, New York | Private collection
literature: Jean Prouvé, Complete Works Volume 2: 1934-1944 , Sulzer, pg. 297 for first notation of "red artificial stone" in Prouvé’s tables and photograph of predecessor to the present form Jean Prouvé , Galerie Patrick Seguin and Sonnabend Gallery, ppg. 420-423
Auctioneer:
Wright Auctions
Date:
2013-12-12
