A SET OF SIX LAQUERED STEEL AND PLYWOOD 'STANDARD' CHAIRS, CIRCA 1951

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JEAN PROUVE (1901-1984)
A Set of Six Laquered Steel and Plywood 'Standard' Chairs, circa 1951
each 31¾ in. (80.6 cm.) high (6)

Provenance

with DeLorenzo 1950, New York.

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Lot Essay

cf. P. Sulzer, Jean Prouvé Complete Works Vol. 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 35, 211-212 for other examples of this model.
Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, p. 41 and 143 for another example of this model.
Exhibition catalogue, Jean Prouvé/Serge Mouille: Two Master Metal Workers, 1985, DeLorenzo Gallery and Alan, New York/Paris, 1985, pp. 44-45 for another example of this model.

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