Because steel was scarce during the Second World War, Prouvé turned to the construction of wood furniture and developed simple houses made out of prefabricated parts. He was a member of the French Résistance and was elected mayor of Nancy after the city was liberated, where he designed and constructed housing for the homeless.
In 1947 he established the Maxéville factory, which made furnishings, prefabricated homes and schools, but he left the company in 1953. He worked as head of the construction office of the Compagnie Industrielle de Matériel de Transport in Paris between 1957-68 and later ran his own architectural consulting firm in Paris from 1968-84, but he continued to design furniture as well. He taught at the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers from 1957-70.
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