LOT DETAILS

Materials:

Painted steel, corrugated aluminium, painted wood, glass

Measurements:

118.11 in. (300.00 cm.) (height) by 354.33 in. (900.00 cm.) (width) by 267.72 in. (680.00 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Exhibited:

'C'est la vie. Press photography since 1940', Swiss National Museum, Zurich, 11 January- 22 April, 2012; 'A passion for Jean Prouvé From Furniture to Architecture', Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Turin, 6 April-8 September, 2013, for the two axial portal structural support frames

Literature:

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre complète / Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 46-53, for examples of demountable houses in other sizes; Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, 6 x 6 Demoutable House, Paris, 2013, passim for the 6 x 6 example; Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli and Galerie Patrick Seguin, A Passion for Jean Prouvé: From Furniture to Architecture: The Laurence and Patrick Seguin Collection, exh. cat., Paris, 2013, pp. 270-75 for the two axial portal structural support frames

Provenance:

Recreational watersports centre, Messein, France; Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris