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The designer and engineer Jean Prouvé developed the EM Table around 1950 for the project 'Maison Tropicale'
Jean Prouvés EM Table, whose aesthetic appearance adheres to structural requirements, is available with table tops in solid wood, veneer or HPL laminate. The version with a high pressure laminate top has a base with a powder-coated textured finish in the same colours as the frame of the Standard SP chair – making them ideal companion pieces.
Table top in HPL
34 mm thick high-pressure laminate surface and edge.
Base
Bent sheet steel and tubular steel, powder-coated, matched to the colours of the Standard SP chair base.
Jean Prouvé
Jean Prouvé completed his training as a metal artisan before opening his own workshop in Nancy in 1924. In the following years he created numerous furniture designs, and in 1947 Prouvé established his own factory. Due to disagreements with the majority shareholders, he left the company in 1953. During the ensuing decades, Prouvé served as a consulting engineer on a number of important architectural projects in Paris.
He left his mark on architectural history again in 1971, when he played a major role in selecting the design of Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers for the Centre Pompidou as chairman of the competition jury. Prouvé's work encompasses a wide range of objects, from a letter opener to door and window fittings, from lighting and furniture to façade elements and prefabricated houses, from modular building systems to large exhibition structures – essentially, almost anything that is suited to industrial production methods. In close cooperation with the Prouvé family, Vitra began in 2002 to issue re-editions of designs by this great French constructeur.
Swiss manufacturer Vitra’s collections of furniture and lighting bring together the colour, culture and sophistication of the world’s most prominent designers.