Lot 47
  • 47

Jean Prouvé

Estimate
120,000 - 180,000 HKD
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Description

  • Jean Prouvé
  • Four Standard Metropole No.305 Chairs
  • lacquered bent sheet steel, steel tube and molded plywood
Executed in 1950.

Literature

Edition Galerie Jousse Seguin - Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, p. 41, another example illustrated
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé Complete Works, Vol. 3: 1944-1954, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2004, no. 1207, another example illustrated 
Edition Galerie Patrick Seguin - Sonnabend Gallery, Jean Prouvé, New York, 2007, p. 200, 203 illustrated
Edition Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 2007, p. 200, illustrated; pp. 234, 266-269, another example illustrated
Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, A Passion for Jean Prouvé, From furniture to architecture, The Laurence and Patrick Seguin collection, exh. cat. 2013, Edition Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli & Galerie Patrick Seguin, Torino, p. 32, another example illustrated

Condition

Overall, a few losses of veneer to the wood, mostly along the edges, possibly re-lacquered, rust and humidity throughout. A few new screws and new rubber ends, with paint loss and oxidation to the metal feet. from left, chair no.3: the veneer is slightly lifting at the far right corner of the seat. from left, chair no.4: the veneer slightly lifted at the front left corner of the seat, loss of veneer at the far back edge, 2 cm in length, two specs of white paint on the seat and the far left feet.
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