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Founded in 1989, GALERIE PATRICK SEGUIN is located in Paris’s Bastille district in a 300 sqm (3200 sq ft) space, architectured by JEAN NOUVEL, a 2008 Pritzker Prize winner. Since its opening, the gallery has brought the talents of French designers such as JEAN PROUVÉ, CHARLOTTE PERRIAND, PIERRE JEANNERET, LE CORBUSIER and JEAN ROYÈRE into the international spotlight.

With a particular specialization in the work of Jean Prouvé, Galerie Patrick Seguin works rigorously to promote both his furniture as well as his demountable architectures. As of today, the gallery has assembled the most important collection of these demountable houses, which for the most part are either unique examples or were produced in very few numbers.

The quality of the works selected by Patrick Seguin combined with his meticulous and informative presentations has resulted in unique exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Venice Biennale, the Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli in Turin, the Luma Foundation in Arles, and the Musée des Beaux Arts in Nancy, France.

Patrick Seguin was named Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2018 and promoted to Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Minister of Culture in 2024. The distinction was awarded to him by Jean Nouvel.

The gallery has also published a series of monographic books that accompany the exhibitions (Jean Prouvé, Jean Royère, Le Corbusier – Pierre Jeanneret – Chandigarh, Jean Prouvé Architectures…).

In addition to featuring both Prouvé demountable houses and design exhibitions, the gallery has invited international contemporary art galleries during the FIAC. Past exhibitions have included galleries Jablonka Galerie, Hauser & Wirth, Gagosian, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Sadie Coles HQ, Massimo De Carlo, Paula Cooper Gallery, kurimanzutto, Luhring Augustine, Karma, David Kordansky Gallery and Gavin Brown’s enterprise.

 


NEWS - Spotlight on the Sofa set by Pierre Jeanneret for Chandigarh

These iconic pieces originally furnished administrative buildings in Chandigarh, India, a city where LE CORBUSIER and PIERRE JEANNERET fully expressed their modernist vision.

In 1950, following India’s independence, Pandit Nehru appointed Le Corbusier to undertake a vast modernization program for Chandigarh. Le Corbusier then entrusted his cousin and close collaborator Pierre Jeanneret with overseeing construction and designing most of the furniture. Jeanneret opted for readily available materials, with an emphasis on the different local species of wood, rot-resistant and perfectly adapted to the region’s climate.

This sofa set, finely re-upholstered, was specifically designed to provide exceptional comfort for visitors to administrative buildings. The low profile of the pieces creates a welcoming atmosphere, perfectly suited to their role as reception furniture. These iconic creations exemplify the thoughtful integration of form and function, embodying Chandigarh’s architectural vision, where each building and its furnishings are integrated into a harmonious and cohesive whole.

Private collection, south of France

NEWS - DESIGN MIAMI.

For this 20th edition of DESIGN MIAMI, GALERIE PATRICK SEGUIN is showing a selection of furniture and lighting designed by JEAN ROYÈRE from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

Jean Royère approached his work with great freedom. He designed pieces that were daring and refined, combining traditional craftsmanship with contemporary innovation. Inspired by the armillary spheres of the 16th century, the “Sphere” table is a perfect example of this approach. Four spherical feet in gold metal support a rectangular marble top, giving an impression of levitation. It was designed in 1939 and exhibited that same year at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs in Paris; this model was made for a private commission around 1950.

As with the “Sphere” table, the pair of “Auxerre” chairs reflects the extraordinary sense of proportion and volume that Royère demonstrated throughout his career. This model features armrests subtly incorporated into an extension of its wrap-around backrest. Its sinusoidal lines also contrast with the rectangularity of the nest of tables, whose gold patinated metal legs support a delicate, partially mirrored glass top. The “Dents Grecques” pattern formed by the legs, skillfully worked into the table design, contributes to its air of refinement.

The names of Jean Royère’s creations often betray their organic and vegetal inspirations – for example the “Bouquet” lights, wall- or ceiling-mounted, are composed of metal ‘branches’, each of which ‘blossoms’ into a lampshade. Beneath the “Bouquet” hanging light, the console table in black-stained oak with its openwork top filters the light, projecting a subtle play of shadows.

The installation is completed by an extremely elegant semi-circular dressing table made in 1962 for a private commission, adorned with three illuminated mirrors and accompanied by a “Gazelle” stool, whose sycamore legs resemble the animal’s horns.

DESIGN MIAMI.
December 3-8, 2024
Convention Center Drive & 19th Street
Miami Beach, Florida, USA
Booth G 01

NEWS - Our latest exclusive video, Jean Prouvé’s “Better Days” House, 1956

GALERIE PATRICK SEGUIN announces the release of an exclusive video on its YouTube channel, featuring the “Better Days” House, designed by JEAN PROUVÉ in 1956.

This stop-motion video, created during the set-up of the house, immerses you in the fascinating construction process of this demountable house. Each step is revealed, showcasing the ingenuity of Prouvé’s construction system.

The “Better Days” House, designed by Jean Prouvé, perfectly summed up the notion of the industrially produced detached dwelling—lasting, light, economical and comfortable—that he had been working on for almost twenty years. The project also illustrated the constructor’s reactivity. Faced with the urgency of the situation caused by the housing crisis, in just a few weeks he perfected a model combining his earlier experiments with an innovative building technique and the latest materials.

The construction approach was based on a concept devised with architect Maurice Silvy at Prouvé’s factory in Maxéville in 1952. On a dished concrete base was placed a prefabricated steel central unit housing the kitchen, bathroom and toilet; supporting a pressed steel beam, the unit constituted the substructure. The shell was made of thermoformed wood sandwich panels and the roof of aluminum slabs that also extended out to cover the porch. The public was as enthused by the idea as practicing architects, but this 57m² (613 sq ft) house that took seven hours to assemble was too revolutionary for its time: the official approval needed for industrialization was not granted, and only five were ever built.

For inquiries about this historic demountable architecture, please send us an email at info@patrickseguin.com.⁠

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NEWS - Jean Prouvé’s 6×9 demountable house at Art Basel Paris – Set-up

As part of the Art Basel Paris public program,GALERIE PATRICK SEGUIN is showing a JEAN PROUVÉ 6×9 demountable house on Avenue Winston Churchill, in front of the Grand Palais.

This stop-motion video, filmed during the two-day assembly of the house in the heart of Paris, highlights the fascinating construction process of this demountable architecture, designed in 1944 to be rapidly assembled and, if needed, demounted and moved elsewhere.

Free of charge and open to all, a visit to the 6×9 demountable house is an opportunity to observe the ingenuity of Prouvé’s construction system, deployed here using two portal frames around which the living spaces inside the pavilion are organized.

The 54m2 demountable house is furnished with a fine selection of Jean Prouvé furniture.

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