Jean Prouvé

Jean Prouvé was a French architect and designer, born in Paris in 1901. He began his training as self-taught, to later work in the workshop of a blacksmith and finally open his own laboratory and design atelier in 1924. He was one of the first to devote himself to metal prefabrication, thus becoming a consultant and collaborator of various architects and designers such as Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand. His design skills were not limited only to industrial design and furniture design, but also extended to the architectural and structural fields. Jean Prouvé has left an important mark in the history of architecture, also playing an important role during the selection of the project by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers for the Center Pompidou in Paris in 1971. He designed a wide range of furniture elements, large exhibition structures and modular construction systems combining material and structural functionality with aesthetic beauty.