A Rare Jean Prouvé Prefab Is Asking €1.5M at Design Miami / Paris

The 1944 model was designed to be assembled by three people in a single day.

A Rare Jean Prouvé Prefab Is Asking €1.5M at Design Miami / Paris

The 1944 model was designed to be assembled by three people in a single day.

Jean Prouvé gave us feats of engineering in furniture form: the Potence lamp, the Standard chair, and the Compas Direction desk, among other elegant, era-defining furnishings born of his industrial mind.

The French designer and constructeur also created some of the first prefabricated homes, meant for mass production at the onset of World War II. Very few were made, however, making it a rare opportunity when one goes up for sale.

But now there are two: The 6x6 Demountable House (in feet, about 20 by 20), currently featured at Design Miami / Paris, the inaugural offshoot of the global fair that runs through October 22; and the F 8X8 BCC House (around 26 by 26 feet), on exhibit at Paris+ par Art Basel through November 6.

The 6x6 Demountable House, a prefab design by Jean Prouvé and Pierre Jeannerete, was developed during World War II as an affordable, easy-to-build home.
French designer Jean Prouvé designed the prefab F 8X8 BCC House with Pierre Jeannerete. One built in 1941 is now on display at Paris+ Art Basel.
The model used metal sparingly, as the material was in short supply in the 1940s.

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