Vitra steht für Einrichtungskonzepte, Möbel und Accessoires, die so individuell sind wie die Menschen, die sich damit umgeben. Der Vitra-Online-Shop macht es Ihnen ganz einfach, sich den Wunsch nach den Klassikern des Möbeldesigns und nach innovativen zeitgenössischen Entwürfen zu erfüllen. Auf diesen Seiten finden Sie viele inspirierende Vitra Angebote, langlebig in Material, Konstruktion und Ästhetik – entworfen von führenden Designern wie Charles & Ray Eames, Maarten Van Severen oder Frank O. Gehry. Sie kaufen diese Produkte von Vitra online und in der Gewissheit, dass Sie ein Original erwerben: Willkommen im Vitra-Online-Shop.Brown Leather Lounge Chair by Jean Prouvé for Vitra, 1930s Former member of staff at Vitra Holland Restoration and Damage Details: Minor wear consistent with age and use Vintage, Industrial, Contemporary, Design Classics, Modernist Import duty is not included in the prices you see online. You may have to pay import duties upon receipt of your order.
Returns accepted within 14 days of delivery, except for Made-to-order itemsVitra – Cite Chair Brand: VitraDesigner: Jean Prouvé Choose Upholstery - Vitra: -- Please Select -- Cite Fabric - 01 Beige Cite Fabric - 02 Black Leather - 66 Nero Deep black powder-coated (smooth) Japanese red powder-coated (smooth) Call us on +44 (0)1273 945300 or click here to email us Designed for a competition to furnish the student residence halls at the Cité Universitaire in Nancy, the Cité armchair is one of Jean Prouvé's early masterpieces. Prouvé himself used this dynamic looking armchair – with distinctive runners made of powder-coated sheet steel and broad leather belts for armrests – in the living room of his own home. Generous dimensions and inviting upholstery contribute to the great comfort of Cité. Cover: seat and backrest with a continuous cover in fabric or leather. Upholstery: neck cushion in polyurethane foam, height-adjustable.
Base: bent sheet steel, powder-coated finish (smooth). Glides: fitted with plastic glides for carpet; felt glides for hard floors optionally available (Please contact us to request felt glides).Jean was born in Nancy, France in 1901. He grew up surrounded by the ideals and energy of his father Victor Prouvé's art collective, "l'École de Nancy". This school came together with the intent of making art readily accessible, to forge a relationship between art and industry, and to articulate a link between art and social consciousness. Jean Prouvé, a leading exponent of industrialized building, started out by serving an apprenticeship as a metal craftsman with Émile Robert, a creative blacksmith, between 1916 and 1919 before continuing his training with Szabo, another metal craftsman, in Paris until 1921. In 1923 Prouvé opened a workshop of his own in Nancy. He received a great many commissions for metalwork, including the exquisite metal mounts he made for Émile Gallé's vases.
In 1924 Jean Prouvé made furniture from sheet iron, informed by a cool, functional aesthetic that caught Le Corbusier's eye. At the 1935 "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes" in Paris, where he was an exhibitor, he met both Le Corbusier and Jean Jeanneret. Prouvé also met their colleague, Charlotte Perriand, with whom he would design several pieces of furniture in the 1950s, including bookshelves of wood and sheet metal with irregularly arranged compartments to which colorfully painted backs and doors of wood and sheet metal were fitted. In 1930 Jean Prouvé was a founding member of the Union des Artistes Modernes (UAM) and took part in their exhibitions. In 1931 he joined A. Schotte in founding the Société des Ateliers Jean Prouvé in Nancy, purchasing the most modern machines available for stamping and metalworking for it. Prouvé designed and produced metal furnishings for large businesses as well as individual pieces on commission. In 1937 he designed piece of school furniture consisting of a combined table and chair.
By 1939 Jean Prouvé was designing sheet metal huts for the French army and in 1944, his business made more than 1000 collapsible housing units for the homeless. As an architect, he also planned schools in Croismare and in the French overseas department of Martinique as well as a fire-brigade barrackss in Bordeaux. In 1953, Pechiney, an aluminium company, became the majority shareholder of the Atelier Jean Prouvé and he left the business. The following year Jean Prouvé opened a design practice in Paris and, jointly with Michel Bataille, founded Les Constructions Jean Prouvé in 1955. In 1957, this business, too, was bought out, this time by the Compagnie Industrielle de Matériel de Transport, for whom he worked until 1966. He died in 1984 in Nancy, France.Replica Jean Prouve Standard Chair Designed in 1934 by the engineer, architect, and designer Jean Prouve, the iconic Standard chair offers comfort and retro style with balanced weight distribution from the specifically designed legs.
Plywood Seat and Back Usually stocked in White and Black This replica has not been manufactured by the original production house or its authorised agents. This replica has no association with Vitra or Jean Prouve. Parisian Bistro Woven Side Chair Finn Juhl 108 Chair 1940s Post War Modern Design Birch Steel Dining Chairs Jill Chair With Wood Base Kartell Crystal Louis Ghost Chair Afton Chairs with Wood Seat Folke Palsson's J77 Chair Kitchen of the Week: The Curtained Kitchen, Dutch Modern Edition Please see our 'Deliveries & Returns' page for more information''I DIED in 1952,'' said Jean Prouvé, the revolutionary French designer, who actually survived until 1984. He died, he felt, when he lost control of the Ateliers Prouvé, the factory that he opened in Maxeville, a suburb of this city, in 1946. There, among other things, he produced such iconic pieces as his Trapèze conference table and his aluminum-paneled sideboard. (Prouvé resigned from the ateliers after his partner, Studal, the French national aluminum company, took over management.)
Today, Prouvé is best known for his wood-and-metal furniture, made with aeronautic-looking details. While many of these pieces were made for institutional use and bought in great quantities by French schools and summer camps, they had style to spare. And they cost almost nothing.Now, a Prouvé revival is taking place. It inspired six French exhibitions last year, the 100th anniversary of his birth. A show on Prouvé's architecture, ''Three Nomadic Structures,'' opens tomorrow at Columbia University.The days when you could pick up an Antony chair or some other Prouvé masterpiece at the Paris flea markets are long over. These days, this designer's Présidence desk, and other rare pieces, show up in designer galleries. DeLorenzo 1950, as Anthony DeLorenzo's store in New York is called, now has one of the bookcases that Prouvé designed with Charlotte Perriand for Mexico House, a residence that serves the University of Paris. It is priced at $55,000. Those who collect Prouvé include the actor Brad Pitt, the gallery owner Larry Gagosian and the fashion designer Marc Jacobs.
In her New York office, Martha Stewart uses shelves and stools Prouvé designed for the French postal service. Next fall, the less monied will be able to acquire new Vitra reproductions of Prouvé pieces like the Antony chair ($660); the Trapèze table (in two sizes, $1,915 and $3,490), designed for Tropical House, which will be seen in the Columbia University show; and the spare 1950 Granito table (in terrazzo for $3,725 or in oak for $2,825).These pieces date back to the ateliers, which were the center of Prouvé's working life. After Prouvé's departure, Studal transformed the ateliers until they scarcely resembled their earlier state. Upon leaving, he said, ''I have nothing but my hands, my shocked brain and no financial reserves at all.''But of course that was not the end of Prouvé's career. Within a year, he was building Maison du Coteau (Hill House) on Rue Augustin-Hacquard here in Nancy.Jean Prouvé was a pioneer of prefabrication and was one of the first to make use of folded sheet steel and other experimental materials.
Not surprisingly, many of these materials were used in the building of Maison du Coteau, which still exists and has been furnished with Prouvé pieces.Prouvé was in his 50's when he built Maison du Coteau, and it was his family's first actual house. Madeleine Prouvé, who had raised the couple's six children in a large apartment in Nancy, had always wanted to live in a home of her husband's design.Several architects made studies for the structure. The one who ultimately designed it was Jean's younger brother, Henri, who had first gone to work for the ateliers as a draftsman at age 15.The house's design was dictated by money -- or lack of it. Prouvé wanted a prefabricated-aluminum shed roof, but the family could not afford it. Instead, he created a simpler roofline; the framework that supported it was made by a Nancy ironworker.Almost all of its other elements, including the prefabricated-aluminum panels pocked with portholes (a distinctive Prouvé touch), were repurposed from the Ateliers Prouvé in Maxeville, where they had been fabricated for a school but never used.
Every scrap of material had to be hauled up a steep hill to the building site in a Jeep that had been bought from Americans after the war. ''We built it together,'' said Catherine Prouvé, one of his children, who was in her early teens when construction began.Although the Maison du Coteau seems iconic to many people now, it did not, of course, to its earliest residents. And the tight budget led to some drawbacks. Ms. Prouvé's sleeping quarters, for instance, measured only 6.6 feet by 9.8 feet. But sometimes the lack of money added to the house's charm. ''Since there wasn't much insulation, we could hear birds walking on the roof,'' she said. Even if some of the materials used to build it were scant, its construction was remarkably solid: the house feels as tightly built as a ship.The combined living and dining room was full of pieces that have since become classics. Besides a modernist table by the architect Pierre Jeanneret, there were several of Prouvé's low-slung chairs and a large Antony bookshelf, with blue and gray metallic elements and sliding doors of diamond-point aluminum.
Prouvé's distinctive touches were everywhere, down to the characteristic vertical wood handles on the kitchen's wooden cabinets.Several years after his death, his widow, unable to care for the house, sold it, and its contents were dispersed among the family members. The city of Nancy bought it in 1991 with the idea of turning it into a museum.Several years ago, the architect Agnès Cailliau leased the house from the city and moved in. Today, the house is filled with costly Prouvé pieces on loan from Philippe Jousse of the Paris gallery Jousse Entreprise and Patrick Seguin of Galerie Patrick Seguin.Of all the houses Prouvé built, both for the government and for individual clients, none was created with the budgetary limitations that prevailed during the creation of the Maison du Coteau. Its origins may have been humble, but its design was as inventive as ever. It's as if all of this master's work can be found, in distilled form, in his modest family home in Nancy.The Maison du Coteau is open to the public the third weekend of September.