A 1944 Jean Prouvé House Lands in Paris, Ready for a New Owner

A 1944 house by the French designer Jean Prouvé is on show in Paris this week, and it is for sale. Galerie Patrick Seguin, a Paris gallery, brought the six-by-six-metre home to Design Miami.Paris, the design fair running until 25 October 2026.

The house was designed in the 1940s as shelter for people left homeless by war. It is a demountable house, meaning it was built to be taken apart and put up again somewhere else. The 6x6 model covers 36 square metres.

Its most recent job was as a guesthouse at Château La Coste, a sculpture park in southern France. Dezeen reported the house's history and its Paris display.

The house has changed shape along the way. In 2015 the British architect Richard Rogers added a bathroom pod and a kitchen pod to it. Both were taken out for the Paris display.

For the fair, the gallery redesigned the interior as a contemporary chashitsu, a traditional Japanese pavilion used for tea ceremonies. Visitors can see the house in the gardens of the Hôtel de Maisons, at 51 Rue de l'Université in Paris's 7th arrondissement, a district on the Left Bank.

Galerie Patrick Seguin was founded in 1989 and has its home in the Bastille district. Its 300-square-metre space was designed by Jean Nouvel, who won the Pritzker Prize, architecture's top award, in 2008. The gallery specialises in Prouvé's work, including his furniture and his demountable buildings. Its collection of demountable houses is mostly made up of unique examples or pieces made in very small numbers.

The fair runs from 21 to 25 October 2026. Anyone wanting to see the house in person can visit the Hôtel de Maisons during those days.