JEAN PROUVÉ (1901-1984)
Rare Demountable Chair, Model CB22/No. 301, designed circa 1941
oak, plywood, aluminum
37 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (95.6 x 40 x 46.4 cm)
JEAN PROUVÉ (1901-1984)
Rare Demountable Chair, Model CB22/No. 301, designed circa 1941
oak, plywood, aluminum
37 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (95.6 x 40 x 46.4 cm)
Fabien Naudan, Paris Private Collection Acquired from the above by the present owner, 2015
R. Herbst, 25 années u.a.m., Paris, 1956 p. 80 (for a related example) Galeries Jousse Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, 1998, p. 42 (for a sketch) L. Allégret, V. Vaudou, ed., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, pp. 175 (for a related example), 226 (for an advertisement) A. von Vegesack, Jean Prouvé The Poetics of the Technical Object, exh. cat. Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2005, pp. 305 (for a preparatory sketch), 310 (for a later example of the same model), 324 (for an advertisement of a later example of the same model) P. Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Oeuvre Complète, Volume 3: 1944–1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 34 (for a related example), 154, 155 (for a technical drawing) Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé Volume 2, Paris, 2007, pp. 234, 254-259 (for related examples of the same model) Galerie Patrick Seguin, A Passion for Jean Prouvé: From Furniture to Architecture: The Laurence and Patrick Seguin Collection, exh. cat., Paris, 2013, illustrated pp. 68, 69- 71 (for a later example of the same model), 72-73 (for an in situ photograph), 270-271