This book, designed around a dialogue between the images of photographer Manuel Bougot and the texts of architect and art historian Vincent Bertaud du Chazaud, sheds a new light on Jean Prouvé’s architectural work.
While Jean Prouvé is today mainly celebrated for his social and industrial approach to housing, this book explores a lesser-known part of his work : thesur mesure houses. This notion of sur mesure – which emerged in Jean Prouvé as a new experimental stage, in the continuity of the maisons démontables (widely documented) – indeed marks the specificity of the five houses studied in the book.
Through an exceptional corpus of photographs by Manuel Bougot, as well as period shots and archive documents, this book honours five masterpieces of the XXe century, which are landmarks in the trajectory of their author and more generally in the history of modern housing.
Éditions du Moniteur,
176 pages,
2020.
Maison Jaoul à Ablis, Jean-Claude Drouin, Jean Prouvé, 1968-1969 © Manuel Bougot
Maison Jean Prouvé à Nancy, 1952-1954 © Manuel Bougot
