Simone Prouvé’s Jean Prouvé Table

in a featureless white setting, a bent metal rectangular dining table with a base in weathered red paint has a translucent gray top, which turns out to be steel mesh laminated between two sheets of safety glass. each leg sits on a small square of rust colored iron, hinting, i think, at the artcurial auction house description of a newer iron frame. the red table is by jean prouve, the top is by simone prouve, his daughter, and it is being sold from her estate in may 2025
Prouvé X Prouvé dining table, 72 x 202 x 92 cm, painted steel, iron, stainless steel, laminated glass, from the estate of Simone Prouvé, selling 27 May 2025, Lot 84, at Artcurial

See, maybe not this one specifically, but this is the kind of FrankenProuvé collab vision I’m talking about.

It sounds like Simone Prouvé made this dining table by taking a base from her father, reinforcing it with an iron frame [which is now rusting], and putting a laminated glass and woven steel top of her own, based on an idea from “self-described Goth” architect Odile Decq, for whom Prouvé wove a steel facade for MACRO in Rome. So that’s around 2006-7.

27 May 2025, Lot 84, Table de salle à manger, est EUR500-800 [artcurial]