Simone Prouvé

Rose Uniacke presented Prouvé in dialogue with the late, great Peter Collingwood at Frieze Masters 2023 in London. 

Daughter of the eminent designer-engineer Jean Prouvé, she was introduced to the modernist architectural élite in her youth, corre- sponding with Le Corbusier and executing upholstery fabrics for Charlotte Perriand. In 1963, she began collaborating with her future husband André Schlosser, freely interpreting his designs in tapestry. In 1990, as she was finally embarking on a solo career as a textile designer, she began working with non-flammable fibers, and collaborating directly with architects like Reiko Hayama,Christian de Portzamparc, and Odile Decq, who commissioned her to weave an entire building façade for the MACRO, the Museum for Modern Art in Rome.