French furniture designer Jane & middot; Prouve (Jean Prouve, 1901- 1984 Nian)

as a metal as the main material of modern designers, Prouve has been very unique; while another had been a metropolis politics the mayor and longtime owner of a large number of companies, may be unique in the Prouve.

Prouve though born in Paris. It is Nancy, and her father is a famous & quot; one of the founders; Nancy School of Art & quot. Prouve from 1916 to 1919 in the name of the metal craftsmen Mier & middot; Robert (EmileRobert) workshop apprenticeship. And then went to Paris is still learning the process of metal production. So after Prouve furniture design are associated with metals. Houpuluwei military service to become a qualified craftsmen and metal in Nancy in 1923 opened his own design studio metal craft. He started only customers can design some of the doors, windows, fence grille and the like, but in 1924 he began to take advantage of just invented near welding technology to produce sheet metal furniture, its design a strong modern industrial aesthetic atmosphere immediately It attracted a group of avant-garde designer's attention. Including Kebuyinye other designers and firms. They are beginning to order the production of metal furniture he designed from Prouve studios.

Prouve design extremely innovative and bold, and often combined with a variety of mechanical devices designed an adjustable chair, for which he won several awards, in 1929 he became the & quot; International Union of Artists & quot; founder of first, and exhibited his work in a group exhibition in 1930 on the first alliance, which includes three adjustable seat. He established his own furniture production company and Nancy opened a larger facility, the production of furniture and related machinery, furniture design and its more likely to be used in offices and schools. With the liberation of France in 1944, Prouve was elected mayor of Nancy; his busy schedule did not prevent him in 1947, large-scale expansion of his plant to make it more successful, then it will soon become an attractive young architects a design center, to 1950 has 250 staff, Prouve creative work has won worldwide recognition and was awarded with many honors status. 1954 Prouve resigned from the factory owner's office and go to Paris to re-establish his design firm, but the second year and in cooperation with others founded another furniture production companies, and has been working for the company until 1966.

Prouve unique design elements from the industrial production is much greater than & quot; the impact of his choice and make the way of production materials are derived from aircraft manufacturing industry; international-style & quot. In the early 1920s, Prouve on its unique industrial approach to design a number of creative metal furniture, such as folding chairs, deck chairs, folding chairs and fall-rotating office chairs, as divided by the sheet metal furniture the body frame, the Prouve design the most important feature is to explore the mechanical adjustment system, but also the use of the popular modern material laminated plywood. Prouve furniture design in the 1940s tend to be elegant, of course, this is an elegant and rough style of his earlier comparison. As 1942 designed lounge chair, replaced steel body frame, but sit back and side part unexpectedly use skin zinc plate, while the spherical end of the 1950s Tuizu will become increasingly popular style. 1945 Prouve also designed a wooden chair, which is characterized by the detachably formula, but the two main connecting shaft is still metal member. Comprehensive his life, Prouve biggest feature is still in the works is the use of metal and bold approach that characterized his 1950 Strasberg University designed chair is most evident, the metal serials are straightforward members between each other and clearly demonstrated.

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