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PROUV, Jean
AN OAK AND METAL COMPASS DESK
designed 1948, executed by Ateliers Jean Prouv, the rectangular oak top above a pair of grey enamelled steel drawers, each with aluminium pull, on black enamelled tubular and sheet steel underframe - 55in.(140cm) wide; and a corresponding Standard side chair, designed 1944, with plywood back and seat on black enamelled tubular and sheet steel frame - 31in.(79cm.) high (2)
AN OAK AND METAL COMPASS DESK
designed 1948, executed by Ateliers Jean Prouv, the rectangular oak top above a pair of grey enamelled steel drawers, each with aluminium pull, on black enamelled tubular and sheet steel underframe - 55in.(140cm) wide; and a corresponding Standard side chair, designed 1944, with plywood back and seat on black enamelled tubular and sheet steel frame - 31in.(79cm.) high (2)
Literature
Jean Prouv, Jan Van Geest, Cologne, 1991, p.106-111
Design 1935-1965, What Modern Was, selections from the Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection, Abrams, 1991, p.174
Design 1935-1965, What Modern Was, selections from the Liliane and David M. Stewart Collection, Abrams, 1991, p.174