Jean Prouve
Flavigny dining table

Ateliers Jean Prouve
France, 1945 / c. 1970
composite stone, enameled steel
80 w x 33 d x 29 h in (203 x 84 x 74 cm)

This form was originally designed for the Flavigny Sanatorium in 1945 and put into wider production in the 1950s. The table tops of the original models were fragile and in the 1970s the design was modified to accomodate a thicker, more study composite stone table top.

Provenance: Selected by Lee Mindel for a private New York City interior

Literature: Jean Prouve, Complete Works Volume 2: 1934-1944, Sulzer, pg. 297 for first notation of "red artificial stone" in Prouves tables and photograph of predecessor to the present form Jean Prouve, Seguin and Navarra, ppg. 76-77 Jean Prouve: The Poetics of the Technical Object, von Vegesak et al, pg. 312

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