Jean Prouvé, "Direction" Armchair

Estimate

70,000 - 90,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property of a Private European Collector

Jean Prouvé

"Direction" Armchair

circa 1951

produced by Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France

enameled sheet and tubular aluminum, oak, leather upholstery

32 x 24 x 23 ½ in. (81.2 x 60.9 x 59.6 cm)

Marc Jacobs, New York

Sotheby’s New York, 31 March 2020, lot 210

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Peter Sulzer, Prouvé: Complete Works, Volume 3, Basel, 2005, p. 214, no. 1209

Galerie Patrick Seguin, ed., Jean Prouvé, Volume 2, Paris, 2007, pp. 299, 310 and 312

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé, Œuvre complète, Volume 4: 1954-1984, Basel, 2008, p. 85