{"title":"Hélène Vacher, Valérie Balthazard and Karine Thilleul (eds.), Des maisons métalliques pour l’Afrique. La maison tropicale de Jean Prouvé","authors":"Stephanie Van de Voorde","doi":"10.4000/abe.7973","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"On June 5, 2007, Jean Prouve’s maison tropicale was sold at Christie’s in New York for 4.96 million US dollars. This staggering amount corresponds to Prouve’s status and the exceptional character of this “designer object.” The collector who seeks to stand out can no longer settle for a piece of furniture or a door panel; only an iconic, unique object, with an exotic edge, will attract notice. The added value of the tropical house indeed lies in the “synergie mechanique de l’ensemble” (Graf, p...","PeriodicalId":41296,"journal":{"name":"ABE Journal","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2020-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ABE Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4000/abe.7973","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"ARCHITECTURE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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On June 5, 2007, Jean Prouve’s maison tropicale was sold at Christie’s in New York for 4.96 million US dollars. This staggering amount corresponds to Prouve’s status and the exceptional character of this “designer object.” The collector who seeks to stand out can no longer settle for a piece of furniture or a door panel; only an iconic, unique object, with an exotic edge, will attract notice. The added value of the tropical house indeed lies in the “synergie mechanique de l’ensemble” (Graf, p...
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