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From: Architexturez <interface.services@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 11:29:13 +0530
Architexturez wrote:
Architexturez wrote:
ref: http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg00720.shtml
Prouve Prefab Tropical House on Stilts Sells for $4.97 Million
By Lindsay Pollock
June 6 (Bloomberg) -- La Maison Tropicale, a movable metal house on
stilts by French modernist designer Jean Prouve, sold for $4.97 million
last night at Christie's International in New York, more than twice the
price per area of a Park Avenue apartment.
The graceful yet industrial-looking green-and-yellow house cost $5,028
per square foot for 988 square feet of usable space. It had a presale
estimate of $4 million to $6 million. The seller was French dealer Eric
Touchaleaume.
``I just love Prouve,'' said tanned hotelier Andre Balazs who bought the
house and said he hasn't decided what he will do with it. Of one thing
was he certain: ``It belongs back in the tropics.''
The 1950-51 residence set a Prouve auction record, topping the $680,000
paid in 2004 at Sotheby's for a pair of green steel doors with the
designer's signature porthole windows.
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