ery practical practice. He was well-known for working very closely with the all the workmen, taking and considering their opinions and having good relationships with them. As Sulzer explains, “The J. Prouve workshops...were founded on team spirit and the participants’ sense of responsibility, created intelligently conceived products in short runs with the very best tools the age could provide, (and) were responsive to changing needs” Due to his rich background and experience Prouve was named many things including artist/craftsman and architect/engineer. Sir Norman Foster describes that it is, “very difficult to categorise him...technocrat/visionary, pioneer/teamworker, innovator/construcotor, all the titles are applicable, even though they are in contradiction with each other...Jean Prouve is...for me the inspiration that shows how art and technology can be reunified.”Jean was known to advise new architects to work in the factory. This came from his personal experience. It was his direct knowlegde of materials, and the machines used to work them that was the source of his success. After all, Prouve did not focus on making something only beautiful, but he strove to improve things. Jean Nouvel descibes Prouve very well, “He simply has the great ambition to confront the basic. He makes of simplicity, elementary, logic, honesty his values. It is rare to see such a striking case of ethics producing an aesthetic. An aesthetic result with no concession...Prouve acted as though aesthetics did not exist...His satisfaction came from having resolved a problem. Having resolved it constructive...
