Prouvã jean (5 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good.

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Condizione: New. Jean Prouvà 's 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 Prouvà 's 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 Prouvà 's innovative building, putting it into storage. In 1991, the well-known 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 Prouvà 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 Prouvà 's 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 Nouvel's inspired interventions.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. First Edition. First Printing. 212 pp. 8vo. Wear and scuffing to dust jacket, slight darkening to edges, darking along right side of front panel due to sun exposure, tear at upper right corner of rear panel along spine, now in mylar cover. Previous owner's name and address on first free endpaper, clean within. Text in French, German, and English.…

FIRST EDITION. JEAN PROUVE, La poà tique de l'objet technique, Vitra Design Museum, 2006, first edition, bound in ribbed metal over boards, AS NEW IN SHRINKWRAP. Jean Prouve a French metal worker, self-taught architect and designer. Le Corbusier designated Prouvà a constructeur, blending architecture and engineering. Prouvà 's main achievement was transferring manufacturing technology from industry to architecture, without losing aesthetic qualities. His design skills were not limited to one discipline. During his career Jean Prouvà was involved in architectural design, industrial design, structural design and furniture design." --------Wikipedia.…