
Miniatures Antony
Jean Prouvé, 1950
In 1955, Prouvé took part with the support of the French designer group Union des Artistes Modernes, in a competition for the furnishing of a student residence in Antony near Paris. Collaborating with Charlotte Perriand, he produced an exemplary furniture series for the leisure area, the cafeterias and a series of rooms in the student residence. His series included the chair shown here, which Prouvé had designed a similar version of for Strasbourg university as early as 1950.
Archive Object: Antony Chair
Vitra produced Antony in series from 2000 to 2012. It is currently no longer part of the Prouvé collection, but it remains important—not only for design history but also for Vitra’s company history, as it was the first chair to be included in the Vitra Design Museum’s collection.
Information
- Scale: 1:6, 115 x 145 x 85 mm
- Material: Bent plywood, lacquered steel tubing and steel sheet
Miniatures Collection




For over two decades, the Vitra Design Museum has been making miniature replicas of milestones in furniture design from its collection. The Miniatures Collection encapsulates the entire history of industrial furniture design – moving from Historicism and Art Nouveau to the Bauhaus and New Objectivity, from Radical Design and Postmodernism all the way up to the present day. Exactly one sixth the size of the historical originals, the chairs are all true to scale and precisely recreate the smallest details of construction, material and colour. The high standard of authenticity even extends to the natural grain of the wood, the reproduction of screws and the elaborate handicraft techniques involved. This has made the miniatures into popular collector's items as well as ideal illustrative material for universities, design schools and architects.