{"id":2229,"date":"2015-11-19T11:22:17","date_gmt":"2015-11-19T10:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patrickseguin.com\/en\/?p=2229"},"modified":"2025-09-24T16:50:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T15:50:14","slug":"designmiami-2015-jean-prouve-4x4-military-shelter-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patrickseguin.com\/en\/news\/designmiami-2015-jean-prouve-4x4-military-shelter-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"DESIGNMIAMI\/ 2015 – JEAN PROUV\u00c9, 4X4 MILITARY SHELTER, 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From 2 to 6 December, on the occasion of DesignMiami\/ 205, Galerie Patrick Seguin is pleased to present the 4×4 Demountable Military Shelter designed in 1939 by Jean Prouv\u00e9. In 1939 the preparations for the war effort provided Prouv\u00e9 with just the right circumstances for getting his venture underway. General Dumontier, head of the 5th Army, ordered 300 small housing units for 4 to 12 people, to be assembled in record time. Adapting the external frame system developed for a holiday camp the previous summer, in only a few months the Ateliers Jean Prouv\u00e9 turned out several hundred 4×4 meter connectable units, whose external bent steel frame, to be filled in with simple wooden panels, could be quickly assembled and demounted by two men. These “campaign buildings” followed the movements of the 5th Army during the first months of the War. In anticipation of finding other outlets, extra 4×4 buildings were made by the Ateliers Jean Prouv\u00e9, one of which was sold to the Ferembal plant in Nancy for use as a gatekeeper’s hut. Access to the premises was controlled from the hut with a bent steel drop-arm barrier also made by the Ateliers Jean Prouv\u00e9. For various reasons\u2014shortage of materials, transport difficulties, bureaucratic stonewalling\u2014this initial venture into mass production never matched Prouv\u00e9’s hopes for it. The disused Ferembal plant was demolished in the early 1980s, but fortunately Prouv\u00e9’s two buildings\u2014the gatekeeper’s hut and the manager’s office\u2014survived. Of the 300 or so 4×4 units manufactured in 1939, only the one that served as the gatekeeper’s hut on the Ferembal site is still in existence. It is shown for the first time at Design Miami\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From 2 to 6 December, on the occasion of DesignMiami\/ 205, Galerie Patrick Seguin is pleased to present the 4×4 Demountable Military Shelter designed in 1939 by Jean Prouv\u00e9. In 1939 the preparations for the war effort provided Prouv\u00e9 with just the right circumstances for getting his venture underway. 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