JEAN PROUVÉ (1901-1984)
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JEAN PROUVÉ (1901-1984)

Set of Four 'Métropole' Chairs, Model No. 305, from the Bourse Maritime, rue Vivienne, Paris, circa 1953

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JEAN PROUVÉ (1901-1984)
Set of Four 'Métropole' Chairs, Model No. 305, from the Bourse Maritime, rue Vivienne, Paris, circa 1953
produced by Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Maxéville, France
painted folded sheet and tube steel, beech plywood
31 ¾ x 17 ¼ x 19 in. (79.4 x 43.8 x 48.2 cm) (each)(4)
Provenance
Bourse Maritime, rue Vivienne, Paris, circa 1953
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2006
Literature
B. Huber and J.-C. Steinegger eds., Jean Prouvé, une architecture par l’industrie, Zurich, 1971, pp. 146-147
Galerie Jousse-Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Milan, 1998, pp. 14, 41, 143, 167, 171, 179, 183
L. Allégret and V. Vaudou, Jean Prouvé et Paris, exh. cat., Pavillon de l'Arsenal, Paris, 2001, p. 227, nos. 19, 20
P. Sulzer, Jean Prouvé. Oeuvre complète/Complete works. Volume 3 : 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 14, 35, 210, no. 1207.3
Jean Prouvé, The Poetics of the Technical Object, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2005, p. 305
A passion for Jean Prouvé. From furniture to architecture. The Laurence and Patrick Seguin collection, exh. cat., Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli and Galerie Patrick Seguin, Turin-Paris, 2013, pp. 12, 31-33, 40-41, 56-63, 116, 271-272, 275
Calder/Prouvé, exh. cat., Gagosian Gallery-Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, 2013, pp. 61, 180
Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Chandigarh, India 1951-1966, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, 2014, pp. 222-223 (present lot illustrated)
Jean Prouvé, vol. 1, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, 2017, pp. 88-93, 99, 171, 267, 300, 309, 409-410
Jean Prouvé, vol. 2, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, 2017, pp. 60-61, 66-67, 80, 84-85, 122-123, 137, 169, 202, 232, 235-236, 238-239, 251, 276-277, 279, 285-287
Jean Prouvé: Constructive Imagination, Galerie Patrick Seguin-Tamatso Yagi Design-Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Paris, 2022, pp. 2, 13-15, 23, 33, 74, 76, 126-127, 135, 193

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