Takes part in the fi rst UAM exhibition, notably showing his furniture. Glass facade for the Marbeuf garage in Paris, (A. César), for which he also creates furniture. Numerous metal items for the building industry: banisters, sash windows, movable indoor partitions, bent sheet metal elevator shafts, notably for the Hôtel de l’Hermitage in Vittel (designed by F. First patents taken out in the name Jean Prouvé: movable partitions, metal doors, sash windows. First furniture: adjustable reclining armchair, pedestal table with rubber top, folding reclining chairs. His light fi ttings are produced and marketed by the DIM Gallery.įounding member of the Union des artistes modernes (UAM). Gate for the Reifenberg House in Paris (Robert Mallet-Stevens, architect).įirst bent sheet metal elevator cars.

Glass roof, banisters, balusters, furniture and light fittings for the Palais de la Bière, Nancy. Member of the Comité Nancy-Paris, an avant-garde group founded by Georges Sadoul. Crucial contact with modernism, sparking his interest in sheet metal, stainless steel and advances in welding techniques. Numerous projects in Lorraine: gates, railings, chandeliers, etc.Įxposition internationale des Arts décoratifs, Paris (International Exhibition of Decorative Arts). Marries Madeleine Schott, one of his father’s students at the fi ne arts school. Shows his wrought-iron work in exhibitions at the École des beaux-arts in Nancy.įirst workshop, Rue du Général Custine, Nancy : “ Jean Prouvé, wrought iron craftsman ” Trains under the wrought-iron craftsman Szabo in Paris, learning modern metalworking and welding techniques. In 1917 he begins making his own wrought iron pieces: a garden gate for the painter Victor Guillaume and a base for a vase made by his godfather Emile Gallé.

Learns wrought iron skills in the Enghien workshop of sculptor-ironworker Emile Robert, a friend of his father. In Nancy in 1904, Victor Prouvé succeeds Emile Gallé as president of the “ École de Nancy ” Art Nouveau movement, and later becomes director of the École des beaux-arts. Jean Prouvé was born in Paris on April 8th into a family of artists: Victor Prouvé, his father, is a painter and Marie Duhamel, his mother, a pianist.

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