JEAN PROUVÉ (1901-1984) - FORMER COLLECTION OF ALBERT LOTT ( - Lot 116

JEAN PROUVÉ (1901-1984) - FORMER COLLECTION OF ALBERT LOTT (1910-1991) PHOTOGRAPHER FROM NANCY AND CLOSE ASSOCIATE OF JEAN AND HENRI PROUVÉ; THEN BY DESCENT "Earlier variant of model N. 100 designed around [1952] and following models AG 11 and AG 12 respectively designed around [1945-46] and [1949], on a model initially imagined around [1940-41]". Cabinet with two sliding doors. The cheeks (side parts), each forming an L with part of the back, in pressed, ivory-lacquered sheet steel (type 1702 PR); the center of the back in plywood. Top and bottom shelves in oak veneered lath. Sliding doors in oak plywood. Legs: two cylindrical metal feet at the back and two folded sheet-steel feet at the front, ivory lacquered (type 1702 PR). The stiffeners, forming the grips of the sliding doors, are profiled and made of oak. The corners are joined by four threaded rods integrated into the structure. The interior, complete with its original ivory-lacquered sheet metal racks, comprises a series of oak shelves with their supports on one side, and an ivory-lacquered metal hanging rail on the other. Made in the Ateliers Jean Prouvé. H. 176 cm - W. 190 cm - D. 52 cm Used condition, accidents and missing parts, two threaded rod nuts replaced. Provenance : - Mr. Albert Lott (1910-1991) - Photographer based (professionally) at 9 rue Stanislas, Nancy; close associate of Jean and Henri Prouvé. Sponsor, for his own private use, of a house built by Henri Prouvée at 141 avenue de Boufflers, Nancy. - Madame X., ; granddaughter of the above. Bibliography : - Peter Sulzer - Jean Prouvé oeuvre complète, vol. 2, 1943-1944 - Éditions Birkhäuser, Basel, 2000. Variants described on page 270 (first cabinets built around 1940-41). - Peter Sulzer - Jean Prouvé oeuvre complète, vol.3, 1944-1954 - Éditions Birkhäuser, Basel, 2005. Variant described and reproduced on plan (ill. 993) page 56; variant described and reproduced on plan (ill. 1143.1) page 174; variant reproduced on plan 1146.4 (Steph Simon Gallery brochure, with description and choice of materials). - Peter Sulzer - Jean Prouvé complete works, vol. 2, 1943-1944 - Éditions Birkhäuser, Basel, 2000. Variants described on page 270 (the first cabinets built around 1940-41). - Collective - Jean Prouvé - Éditions Benedikt Taschen, Bonn, 1991. Variant featured on a booklet Les meubles des Ateliers Jean Prouvé (published by Steph Simon) reproduced on page 30. - Les meubles des Ateliers Jean Prouvé - Period catalog published by Steph Simon. Variant reproduced in this publication. EXPERT : EYRAUD Emmanuel