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(2) Jean Prouvé
(b Paris, 8 April 1901; d Nancy, 23 March 1984). Building designer and engineer, son of (1) Victor Prouvé. He was born into a milieu concerned with the unity of art and industry, and this background, together with the apprenticeship as a craftsman in wrought iron that Prouvé served in Paris (1916–21) under the ironworkers Emile Robert and Szabo, gave him an acute sensibility to his materials. His first contact with the world of architecture, a field in which he received no formal education, was as a craftsman in wrought iron; he supplied the gates for the War Memorial at Verdun in 1918 and various parts for a number of buildings in Paris, including those designed by Robert Mallet-Stevens, for whom he produced the railings and gratings for the private mansions in Rue Mallet-Stevens in 1926. He also supplied the windows in 1933 for the Hôpital de la Grange-Blanche (1915–30; now Hôpital Edouard Herriot) built by Tony Garnier in Lyon.
Part of the Prouvé family
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