Jean Prouvé : maison démontable Les Jours Meilleurs = Les Jours Meilleurs demountable house / [textes, Catherine Coley ; traduction anglaise, John Tittensor].

Main entry:

Prouvé, Jean.

Title & Author:

Jean Prouvé : maison démontable Les Jours Meilleurs = Les Jours Meilleurs demountable house / [textes, Catherine Coley ; traduction anglaise, John Tittensor].

Publication:

Description:

79 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 25 cm.

Series:

Jean Prouvé architecture ; 8

Notes:
This is Volume 8 of Jean Prouvé Architecture Coffret / Box Set No.2.
Text in French and English.

Summary:

Jean Prouvé began to design portable and demountable barracks for the French army during the Second World War. After the war, the French government commissioned Prouvé 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 Seguin's tireless efforts over the past 27 years to preserve and promote these important designs. The gallery owns the largest collection of Prouvé's demountables, 22 in total. This volume focuses on his 1956 Demountable House, and is luxuriously illustrated with archival and contemporary photographs.

ISBN:

9782909187198 (5 volume boxed set)
2909187195 (5 volume boxed set)
9782909187167 (hardcover)
2909187160 (hardcover)

Subject:

Prouvé, Jean.
Prefabricated houses France History 20th century.
Prefabricated houses
France

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Coley, Catherine.
Jean Prouvé architecture ; 8.

Maison démontable Les Jours Meilleurs
Jours Meilleurs demountable house

Holdings:

Location: Library main 294170
Call No.: BIB 239537
Status: Available

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