Exposition "Jean Prouvé, Inventeur de Maisons"

EXHIBITION ‘JEAN PROUVÉ, INVENTOR OF HOUSES’ PRESENTED AT THE CAB FOUNDATION From 15 March to 31 October 2026 The exhibition is dedicated to Jean Prouvé's founding ambition: to industrialise the act of building. Archival photographs (1930s–1970s), prefabricated architectural elements and furniture trace the evolution of his work. Fondation CAB in Saint-Paul and Laffanour | Galerie Downtown are dedicating an exhibition to Jean Prouvé, foregrounding his radical credo: to industrialize the act of building! Conceived as a precise architectural sequence, the presentation brings together archival photographic prints (1930s–1970s), rare prefabricated elements — panels, brise-soleil, doors — and a distilled selection of seminal furniture, from the Cité bed to the Compas table and Standard chair. Each work manifests Prouvé’s constructive exactitude and structural lyricism. Set within the 1950s modernist enclave of Fondation CAB, the exhibition reveals the consubstantial bond between architecture and furniture — where technique becomes form, and form attains permanence. More than seventy years on, Jean Prouvé’s œuvre continues to recalibrate modernity. This exhibition has been organized and curated by Laffanour | Galerie Downtown.