Jean Prouvé (8 April 1901 - 23 March 1984) was a French engineer and designer. His main achievement was transferring manufacturing technology from industry to architecture, without losing aesthetic qualities.
Jean was born in Nancy. He grew up surrounded by the ideals and energy of his father Victor Prouvé's art collective, "l'École de Nancy". This school came together with the intent of making art readily accessible, to forge a relationship betw...
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Jean Prouvé (8 April 1901 - 23 March 1984) was a French engineer and designer. His main achievement was transferring manufacturing technology from industry to architecture, without losing aesthetic qualities.
Jean was born in Nancy. He grew up surrounded by the ideals and energy of his father Victor Prouvé's art collective, "l'École de Nancy". This school came together with the intent of making art readily accessible, to forge a relationship between art and industry, and to articulate a link between art and social consciousness. ll
Prouvé was first apprenticed to a blacksmith, Émile Robert, and then to the metal workshop of Szabo. In Nancy in 1923 he opened what would be the first in a string of his own workshops and studios. He produced wrought iron lamps, chandeliers, hand rails and began designing furniture. In 1930 he helped establish the Union of Modern Artists whose manifesto read, "We like logic, balance and purity."
Although Jean Prouvé shaped his public image around the idea...
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