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Julien Lanoo is an award winning architecture photographer working internationally with architects, design studios, cultural institutions, museums, galleries, publishers, and editorial clients. His work documents architecture, interiors, exhibitions, cultural spaces, and the built environment through commissioned and editorial photography.

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Maison Démontable 4x4, Weil am Rhein — Photography by Julien Lanoo

Small green-framed pavilion beside water, trees and a white building at Vitra in Weil am Rhein, Germany

Maison Démontable 4x4byJean Prouvé

Weil am Rhein, Germany

Maison Démontable 4x4

Client: Vitra

Location: Weil am Rhein, Germany

The Maison Démontable 4x4 is an original prefabricated house designed by Jean Prouvé as part of his research into lightweight, demountable and industrialised forms of houses.
Vitra shows the house as an important work within its wider architectural collection. Set beside the path around the Water Garden by Bas Smets, it enters into a quiet dialogue with the surrounding landscape and the other buildings of the campus. The photographs show the Maison Démontable 4x4 not merely as a historical object, but as a work that remains active, relevant and deeply respected. As both a prototype and a built manifesto, it expresses Jean Prouvé’s enduring ambition to unite construction, mobility and modern domestic life.

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