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Jean Prouvé, "Cite" Chair, 1933
Jean Prouvé, "Cite" Chair, 1933
Jean Prouvé, "Cite" Chair, 1933
Jean Prouvé, "Cite" Chair, 1933

Jean Prouvé

"Cite" Chair, 1933
Lacquered metal, leather and canvas
Dimensions:
33 1/2 x 23 5/8 x 37 inches
85 x 60 x 94 cm
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  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1 ) Jean Prouvé, "Cite" Chair, 1933
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2 ) Jean Prouvé, "Cite" Chair, 1933
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3 ) Jean Prouvé, "Cite" Chair, 1933
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4 ) Jean Prouvé, "Cite" Chair, 1933
The easy chair created in 1930 for the new university dormitory in Nancy was the first small-series model to come out of the Ateliers Jean Prouvé. this model drew on...
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The easy chair created in 1930 for the new university dormitory in Nancy was the first small-series model to come out of the Ateliers Jean Prouvé. this model drew on Prouvé's designs and prototypes for the mechanically complex, adjustable easy chairs that were being individually made at the same time. Using the profile of the Grand Repos armchair, it met the requirements of a different market for "reading" chairs combining economy, solidity and easy maintenance. Some sixty examples were made for students' rooms.

From Hélin Serre, Galerie Downtown:

The design is very fine for a first project and very minimal. In each student's room, [there is a] desk and its armchair, daybed, the cité armchair and a wall bookcase.


After Nancy University commission, there was a very small production with a few adaptations.


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Provenance

Cité Universitaire de Nancy, France
Private Collection
Galerie Downtown/Francois Laffanour, Paris
Galerie Le Beau, Paris
1950 Gallery, New York

Vintage20, New York

Literature

Jean Prouvé: Möbel/Furniture/Meubles, Taschen, 1991, 40-41 (similar models).

Alexander Von Vegesack et al, Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the Technical Object, Vitra Design Museum, 2013, 311 (similar model).

A Passion for Jean Prouvé: From Furniture to Architecture, The Laurence and Patrick Seguin Collection, Pinoteca Agnelli/Galerie Patrick Seguin, 2013, 122-123, 136-137 (similar model).

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