Jean PROUVÉ (1901-1984) Lot n° 24

Brise-soleil Aluminum and partially lacquered wood. Zonnescherm Aluminum in gelakt hout. 1964. Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé. H.250 cm L.171 cm excluding structure Provenance/Herkomst: Houses and school in Cameroon, Africa. Cameroon. Bibliographie / Bibliografie: Jean Prouvé Oeuvre complète 1954-1984, volume 4. Peter Sulzer, ed. Birkhauser, 2008. p. 180-181. Jean Prouvé, Galerie Patrick Seguin, 2007, p.522-523. Calder/Prouvé - Gagosian & Patrick Seguin Gallery , ed. Rizzoli international publications 2013 p 88, 90. The standardized and combinable panels were designed in many versions, some of which could include components that provided additional comfort elements such as air vents and portholes. "I imagined a new way of doing architecture, a new way of using materials. Whereas we used to build only buildings with load-bearing walls, I imagined buildings that were structured differently. They had a metal or concrete structure like a human being has a skeleton, to which we had to add the logical complement of a skeleton: the envelope. So the idea was to wrap it with a light façade... As we were hanging it on the floor slabs, we equated it with a curtain, and we called it: curtain wall. " Jean Prouvé