Jean Prouve - French Furniture Designer and Architect

Jean Prouve 1901 - 1984

Jean Prouve came from an artistic family, his grandfather and Victor, Jean's father designed with Emile Galle and Louis Majorelle ceramics and Marquetry.

He trained initially as a blacksmith from 1917 to 1920, then studied at the Ecole Superieure de Nancy.

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Only a year after opening his own workshop in 1923 he was producing modern designed steel chairs.

He was a founding member of the Union des Artistes Modernes. He worked for Le Corbusier during the late 1920's.

In 1931, Les Ateliers Jean Prouve was setup, this was a furniture manufacturing company. He became tired of this and after 1950, he left designing furniture to persue architecture.

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