Tuesday, January 3, 2023

The Prouvé house in Saint-Dié







Jean Prouvé had imagined this 270 m² residence on the heights of Saint-Dié-des-Vosges in the east of France for his daughter

“I am not an architect, I am not an engineer. I am a factory man,” said Jean Prouvé. The entrepreneur from Nancy has nevertheless profoundly marked contemporary architecture by imagining after the Second World War, in a Europe in ruins, an innovative habitat: industrialized houses, dismountable and transportable. Small-sized houses, the most illustrious model of which is the one commissioned by Abbé Pierre in 1956 and called "La Maison des jours mieux". 

"La Maison des jours mieux"


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