Jean Prouvé is one of the 20th century’s greatest designers, known for integrating engineering into the heart of his architectural and sculptural masterpieces. Alongside Charles and Ray Eames, Prouvé’s trailblazing methods and ideas are influential to this day and seen throughout contemporary architecture and furniture. Galerie Patrick Seguin, located in Paris’s Bastille district, is a gallery that has fostered the international success of French designers from modern architecture pioneer Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret to Prouvé himself. All three designers have, at one point or another, set foot in Patrick Seguin’s substantial 3,200 square feet space, which featured Prouvé’s furniture, demountable houses, and was responsible for assembling the most unique and limited collection of the latter.

Now, some of the trio’s collaborative work is recorded in the gallery’s publication of the third installment of the “Jean Prouvé Architecture” box set, which snuggly fits the hardcover books into a silver metal casing, an appropriate appearance for the accomplished French metal worker. The release serves as a complement to two previous sets that, along with the latest, congruently form 15 monographic volumes offering a comprehensive Anglo-French dive for both the general public as well as avid Prouvé followers.

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