VITRA Bahut Sideboard

Jean Prouvé, one of the great designers of the 20th century, was trained as an ornamental ironworker in France. In 1930 he achieved an innovative breakthrough, producing a plastic and technical form oriented to industrial practice, and went on to become the partner of many significant architects and furniture designers; Prouvé's influences are still very much alive today. His production facility in Maxeville, France allowed him the unique opportunity of combining industrial aesthetics with technical know-how. In his furniture designs, Jean Prouvé combines his technical know-how and the opportunities offered by his production facility with it's unique industrial aesthetics. The Bahut Sideboard, dating from 1951, has an unusual decorative character thanks to the use of diamond sheet metal, emphasized by the cream-white lacquer. Material: folded sheet aluminum and steel, suspended doors made of diamond-shaped plate, handles of solid oak.