$13,750
Ateliers Jean Prouvé France, 1945 / c.
1970 composite stone, enameled steel 78¾ w x 27½ d x 30 h in (200 x 70 x 76 cm)
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 study composite stone table top. literature: Jean Prouvé, Complete Works Volume 2: 1934-1944 , Sulzer, pg. 297 for first notation of "red artificial stone" in Prouvés tables and photograph of predecessor to the present form Jean Prouvé , Seguin and Navarra, ppg. 76-77 Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the Technical Object , von Vegesak et al, pg. 312
result: $13,750
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Auctioneer:
Wright Auctions
Date:
2010-03-23
