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A pair of Jean Prouve Tout Bois chairs, C. 1940s, oak structure,…
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Auckland
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14-Jun-2020
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A pair of Jean Prouve Tout Bois chairs, C. 1940s, oak structure, plywood seat and backrest painted red. The 'Chaise Tout Bois' is the only Jean Prouve chair that is made entirely out of wood. It was designed during the second World War, at a time when metal was used for arsenal and had become a scarcity. The chairs' form and ergonomics are focused on practicality, comfort, longevity and energy saving. The chairs are stripped-back from any superfluous embellishments, light but solid, mass-produced and originally inexpensive to answer the needs of a population during and post-war. By a strange twist of fate, Jean Prouve's chairs are today highly valuable, their apparent simplicity enchanting the modern design Collectors. Approx, height 83.5 cm, width 39 cm, diameter 49 cm (each). Literature: Jan van Geest, Jean Prouve, Cologne, 1991, pp. 76-77, Galerie Jousse Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouve, Paris, 1998, pp. 42-43, Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouve, Oeuvres Completes/Complete works, volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, p. 294, Laurence Allegret and Valerie Vaudou, Jean Prouve et Paris, Paris, 2001, p. 238, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouve, Paris, 2007, pp. 234 and 250-253, Galerie Patrick Seguin and Pinoteca Agnelli, a Passion for Jean Prouve: from furniture to Architecture, Turin, 2013, pp. 52-53
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