'BRIDGE DIRECTION' A LACQUERED STEEL, OAK AND LEATHER ARMCHAIR, CIRCA 1950

cf. P. Jousse, P. Seguin and E. Navarra, Jean Prouvé, Paris, 1998, pp. 48-51, 185, 203 for other examples of this chair.
Exhibition catalogue, Jean Prouvé: The Poetics of the Technical Object, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 2005, p. 325 for an image of a leaflet published in early 1951 illustrating this model.