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Jean Prouve's Ferembal House was built in Nancy, France, in 1948,
as the office for a can factory. Composed of five axial frames clad
with wooden panels, set on a tall masonry base and occupying less
than 600 square feet in a single raised story, this prefabricated
structure was a classic example of Prouve's advocacy of mobile
architecture. Thirty years later, however, the company went out of
business and the factory was demolished. Fortunately a Nancy
resident had the wherewithal to dismantle and preserve Prouve's
innovative building, putting it into storage. In 1991, the
well-known Parisian design gallerist Patrick Seguin traveled to
Nancy to locate the Ferembal House. Seguin spent the next ten years
raising the funds to renovate it, working in tandem with Prouve
experts, and in 2007 invited his longstanding friend, the architect
Jean Nouvel, to undertake a creative adaptation of the House.
Drawing on contemporary technical resources, Nouvel brilliantly
extended and systematized its fundamental modularity with stackable
Ductal blocks and a floor of removable slabs. The results were
exhibited in the Tuileries Gardens in Paris, in 2010. This
comprehensive account of Prouve's posthumous collaboration with
Nouvel recounts the tale of the Ferembal House with archival
photographs and plans of the original structure and a detailed
account of Nouvel's inspired interventions.
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