Jean Prouvé, Pair of “Semi-Metal” chairs, model no. 305

designed 1950, produced 1950-1969
Painted steel, beech-veneered plywood.
Each: 31 1/4 x 16 3/8 x 17 3/4 in. (79.4 x 41.6 x 45.1 cm)
Produced by Les Ateliers Jean Prouvé, France.

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, "Important 20th Century Design," June 14, 2006, lot 81 (partial)
Acquired from the above
Phillips, New York, "Design," June 11, 2014, lot 19 (partial)
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature

Peter Sulzer, Jean Prouvé: Œuvre complète / Complete Works, Volume 3: 1944-1954, Basel, 2005, pp. 208-12, 232, 268
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Volume 1, Paris, 2017, pp. 88-93, 99, 409, 410
Galerie Patrick Seguin, Jean Prouvé, Volume 2, Paris, 2017, pp. 25, 60-61, 66-67, 79, 80, 84-85