- Product:
- Dining table
- Manufacturer:
- Phillips
- Architonic ID:
- 4109447
- Launched:
- 1940
- Country:
- United States
- Category:
- Furnishings
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
Important early dining table
Painted hand-bent and welded steel, oak.
29 1/8 x 64 5/8 x 33 in. (74 x 164.1 x 83.8 cm)
Manufactured by les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, France.
Catalogue essay:
This possibly unique, fine dining table corresponds to Jean Prouvé’s plan no. 8935 dating from November 1941, illustration no. 886, p. 284 from the book Jean Prouvé: Œuvre Compléte, Volume 2: 1934-1944 by Peter Sulzer. This drawing shows the plan for a model of the present lot, illustrating two ideas for the understructure; a rectangular structure as well as a single beam structure. According to this plan, the rectangular structure evolved to a single beam structure. The present lot is made with the rectangular structure - before the change to the single beam support. Also of note are the sculpted legs which are not made of one piece of machine-bent sheet metal but of two symmetrical handcrafted elements welded together vertically. Therefore, it is possible that the present table is a unique and a forerunner to the structure of the "Granito" table, the structural change taking place in order to accommodate the heavy top.
Literature:
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre Complète, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, p. 284, ill. 886 for a drawing of the table
Painted hand-bent and welded steel, oak.
29 1/8 x 64 5/8 x 33 in. (74 x 164.1 x 83.8 cm)
Manufactured by les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, France.
Catalogue essay:
This possibly unique, fine dining table corresponds to Jean Prouvé’s plan no. 8935 dating from November 1941, illustration no. 886, p. 284 from the book Jean Prouvé: Œuvre Compléte, Volume 2: 1934-1944 by Peter Sulzer. This drawing shows the plan for a model of the present lot, illustrating two ideas for the understructure; a rectangular structure as well as a single beam structure. According to this plan, the rectangular structure evolved to a single beam structure. The present lot is made with the rectangular structure - before the change to the single beam support. Also of note are the sculpted legs which are not made of one piece of machine-bent sheet metal but of two symmetrical handcrafted elements welded together vertically. Therefore, it is possible that the present table is a unique and a forerunner to the structure of the "Granito" table, the structural change taking place in order to accommodate the heavy top.
Literature:
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre Complète, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, p. 284, ill. 886 for a drawing of the table