Incollect Magazine - Issue 8

106 www.incollect.com Chandigarh made of recycled local wood with legs shaped like a compass and the seat and floating backrest of woven cane. Jeanneret also collaborated extensively with Charlotte Perriand and the pair, who were lovers for a time, even teamed up with Jean Prouvé in 1940 to research prefabricated housing. Prouvé was a metal worker with no formal training in either design or architecture, but throughout his career, he designed everything from bicycles and furniture to student housing and even a new kind of stove. He was inspired by the possibilities of industrial materials, methods and processes, and how they could be applied to standardized, mass-produced design. He designed portable barracks for the army and prefabricated steel, cheap demountable vacation homes for workers. Prouvé’s signature furniture often employs sheet metal, mostly Pierre Chapo “T21” dining table and “S34” dining chairs. Distinctive crossed-leg base in the designer’s favorite wood, the now-extinct French elm. France, circa 1960 – 1970s. From Goldwood by Boris on Incollect.com Pierre Chapo “T22 L’oeil” coffee table. Two arch-shaped tables with center “eye” attached to one piece. Solid elm. France, circa 1970s. From H. Gallery on Incollect.com