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Jean Prouvé Rare desk, from the offices of Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité S.A., Paris, 1934 image 1
Jean Prouvé Rare desk, from the offices of Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité S.A., Paris, 1934 image 2
PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE COLLECTION, LONDON
Lot 68TP

Jean Prouvé
Rare desk, from the offices of Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité S.A., Paris, 1934

28 – 29 April 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £25,500 inc. premium

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Jean Prouvé

Rare desk, from the offices of Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité S.A., Paris, 1934
Painted steel, chromium-plated metal, linoleum.
78.5 x 167.8 x 83.7 cm
Manufactured by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, Nancy, France.
One leg with paper label printed EDF-CD31/64643.

Footnotes

Provenance
Compagnie Parisienne de Distribution d'Électricité S.A., Paris, 1934
Phillips, London, 'Design', 28 April 2016, lot 126
Acquired from the above by the present owner


Literature
'L'Immeuble de la C.P.D.E.', Arte et Industrie, January 1936, p. 15
Galerie Jousse Seguin and Galerie Enrico Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, p. 52
Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre complète / Complete Works, Volume 2: 1934-1944, Basel, 2000, p. 73
Laurence Allégret and Valérie Vaudou, eds., Jean Prouvé et Paris, Paris, 2001, pp. 62, 230
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Vol. 2, Paris, 2007, pp. 330, 332-333, 501

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