The Hotelier André Balazs, in partnership with the Design Museum and Tate Modern, brings to Britain a house designed by the architect Jean Prouvé (1901-84). This prototype, erected outside Tate Modern, is part of the Design Museum’s exhibition ‘Jean Prouvé – The Poetics of the Technical Object’ (05/02-13/04). Found in Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) in 2000, this ‘flat pack’ house was dismantled, returned to France, and restored. All its component parts were designed to be lightweight and neatly fitted into a cargo plane for shipment. Intended for mass production, it was no cheaper than the local product and their industrial aesthetic did not appeal. This house exists both as a celebration of modernism and as a defunct bygone of the colonial era.