‘Mexique’ bookcase, from the Maison du Mexique, Cité Universitaire, Paris, 1953
Pine, painted ‘Diamond Point’motif, aluminium, bent steel. 160.5 x 184.5 x 31 cm. (63 1/4 x 72 5/8 x 12 1/4 in.)
Manufactured by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, France.
PROVENANCE Maison du Mexique, Cité Internationale Universitaire, Paris, France; Philippe and Patricia Jousse, Paris, France; Laurence and Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
LITERATURE Galeries Jousse Seguin and Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 152-153; Mary McLeod, ed., Charlotte Perriand: An Art of Living, New York, 2003, p. 231; Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Oeuvre Complète/Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, p. 260, cat. no. 1240.2; Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand-Un Art d'Habiter, Paris, 2005, front cover and pp. 368-379 for a discussion of this bookcase and interiors at the Maison du Mexique; Elizabeth Védrenne, Charlotte Perriand, New York, 2005, p. 60; Jacques Barsac, Charlotte Perriand et le Japon, Paris, 2008, p. 205
Although never a couple, Charlotte Perriand and Jean Prouvé stood hand-in-hand at midcentury, the pragmatic parents of postwar modernism in France. Together they devised economic solutions to the problems of daily life in everyday places: dormitories, locker rooms,...
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CHARLOTTE PERRIAND, ATELIER JEAN PROUVÉ
‘Mexique’ bookcase, from the Maison du Mexique, Ci..., 1953
Estimate £80,000-140,000
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