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Architect for better days
- Title
- Architect for better days / Jean Prouvé.
- Author
- Prouvé, Jean
- Publication
- London : Phaidon Press ; [Zurich, Switzerland] : LUMA Foundation, 2017.
- ©2017
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQF 18-455 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Fondation LUMA.
- Description
- 175 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 28 cm
- Summary
- This book, which accompanies a major retrospective at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, focuses on twelve prefabricated houses designed by Prouve, each of which has been specially rebuilt for the exhibition. Originally trained as a metal worker, Jean Prouve regarded himself as an engineer and constructor rather than a designer or architect. Among his broad output, which ranges from lighting to furniture, exhibition structures to shelving, his modular buildings are particularly intriguing. Essays setting his work in context are accompanied by archival and contemporary images, drawings, and handwritten notes, together with a portfolio of images of the twelve houses as installed in Arles.Jean Prouve was a French metal worker, self-taught architect, and designer, now regarded as one of the most influential designers of the early modernist movement. Among his achievements, he is revered for using technology previously limited to industrial manufacturing within his elegant architecture.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs.
- History.
- Note
- Coinciding with a major survey exhibition dedicated to humanist Jean Prouvé's constructions at the LUMA Foundation in Arles, 21 October 2017-1 May 2018--Back cover and exhibition webpage.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Call Number
- JQF 18-455
- ISBN
- 9780714875552
- 0714875554
- OCLC
- 987281772
- Author
- Prouvé, Jean, architect.
- Title
- Architect for better days / Jean Prouvé.
- Publisher
- London : Phaidon Press ; [Zurich, Switzerland] : LUMA Foundation, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Added Author
- Fondation LUMA.
- Research Call Number
- JQF 18-455