Prouvé, Jean.

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

Paris : Galerie Patrick Seguin, ©2016.

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

Jean Prouvé architecture ; 8

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.

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

History

Coley, Catherine.
Jean Prouvé architecture ; 8.

Maison démontable Les Jours Meilleurs
Jours Meilleurs demountable house

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 294170
Cote: BIB 239537
Statut: Disponible