Jean Prouve and Jean Nouvel Ferembal House by With Jean Nouvel & Other Jean Prouve & Edited by Patrick Seguin
Brand: Galerie Patrick Seguin
Product Description
Jean Prouvs Ferembal House was built in Nancy France in 1948 as the office for a can factory. Composed of five axial frames clad with wooden panels set on a tall masonry base and occupying less than 600 square feet in a single raised story this prefabricated structure was a classic example of Prouvs advocacy of mobile architecture. Thirty years later however the company went out of business and the factory was demolished. Fortunately a Nancy resident had the wherewithal to dismantle and preserve Prouvs innovative building putting it into storage. In 1991 the wellknown Parisian design gallerist Patrick Seguin traveled to Nancy to locate the Ferembal House. Seguin spent the next ten years raising the funds to renovate it working in tandem with Prouv experts and in 2007 invited his longstanding friend the architect Jean Nouvel to undertake a creative adaptation of the House. Drawing on contemporary technical resources Nouvel brilliantly extended and systematized its fundamental modularity with stackable Ductal blocks and a floor of removable slabs. The results were exhibited in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris in 2010. This comprehensive account of Prouvs posthumous collaboration with Nouvel recounts the tale of the Ferembal House with archival photographs and plans of the original structure and a detailed account of Nouvels inspired interventions. show more
Condition : New
Author : With Jean Nouvel Other Jean Prouve Edited By Patrick Seguin
Weight : 2327.96
Publisher : Galerie Patrick Seguin
Language : English
EAN : 9782909187013
ISBN10 : 2909187012
Format : Hardback
Date of Publication : 20220703
Place of Publication : Paris France
Pagination : 336
Dimensions : 260 X 290 X 33.02mm