Jean Prouvé

Chairs take the most stress on their back legs, where they bear the weight of the user's upper body. The engineer, architect and designer Jean Prouvé incorporated this simple insight in his design for the Standard Chair: while steel tubing suffices ...

This wonderful chair is no longer in production. A high quality reproduction was originally designed for the Cité Universitaire at Antony, near Paris, in the 50s. The design has a wonderfully dynamic shape, made from a single curved plywood wooden bl...