This publication thoroughly explores the complexity of a professional figure able to marry creativity, entrepreneurial flair and work ethics, and in so doing connect craftsmanship to industry and design to architecture. Only recently has Jean Prouvé's work powerfully captured the attention of experts and the public in general. His technical abilities and aesthetic sense, and his inventions in the fields of construction, building parts and functional furniture, have enormously influenced thinking in terms of twentieth century architecture and design.
The retrospective Jean Prouvé. La Poetica dell'Oggetto Tecnico inaugurates a stimulating dialogue between the ancient and modern through the exhibition of design objects, prototypes and numerous architectural models that have indubitably marked and influenced twentieth century thinking and design. The exhibition, curated by the Swiss architects and architectural historians Bruno Reichlin and Franz Graf, in collaboration with the French art historian Catherine Coleye and Prouvé's youngest daughter, Catherine, has been documented by a richly illustrated catalogue edited by Skira, which offers an exhaustive analysis of Prouvé's ideas, his methods of production, his collaboration with architects and engineers, and his design objects, buildings and construction methods. With the contribution of more than forty authors and more than six hundred illustrations, together with texts by Prouvé himself, this publication, edited by Catherine Dumont d'Ayot and Bruno Reichlin, presents the most complete and up-to-date overview ever produced on the works of Jean Prouvé. The publication is in English with essays by David Palterer and Bruno Reichlin translated into Italian.
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