JEAN PROUVE (1901-1984)

AN ALUMINUM AND STEEL LOUVER, 1950S

细节

JEAN PROUVE (1901-1984)
An Aluminum and Steel Louver, 1950s
in wood frame
63 in. (160 cm.) high, 59 in. (149.9 cm.) wide, 14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) deep

来源

Private building, Brazzaville.

展览

Paris, Galerie 54, Aménagements de l'Unité d'Habitation Air France de Brazzaville par Charlotte Perriand et Jean Prouvé, November 2002-March 2003.

拍品专文

0rouvé produced several types of sunscreens for his structures in France and Africa. This louver is from a private building in Brazzaville and is identical to louvers used for the Manufacture des Tabacs in Marseille.

cf. Exhibition catalogue, Jean Prouvé Constructeur 1901-1984, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy, Nancy, 2001, pp. 130-131 for a similar model.

Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 170-171 and 219 for variations of this model at the Manufacture des Tabacs in Marseille.

Exhibition catalogue, Jean Prouvé Constructeur, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1990, p. 169 for a variation of this model at the prototype Maison Tropicale, Niamey.