Jean Prouv: Maison Demontable Metropole Demountable House, 1949

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Seguin, Laurence & Patrick. Jean Prouv: Maison Demontable Metropole Demountable House, 1949

Cl. Galerie Patrick Seguin 2016

Book ID: 100470

Jean Prouv began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned Prouv to design inexpensive, effective housing for the newly homeless, prompting him to perfect his patented axial portal frame to build easily constructed demountable houses. Few of these groundbreaking structures were built, making them exceedingly rare today prompting Galerie Patrick Seguins tireless efforts over the past 27 years to preserve and promote these important designs. The gallery owns the largest collection of Prouvs demountables, 22 in total.
This volume focuses on his Metropole Demountable House, and is luxuriously illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs.

80 pp. French/English