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Andre Balazs is Sooo (Pre)Fab!

Page Six has the latest scoop on Andre Balazs's newest hotel venture. Aside from possibly taking over the Hotel Chelsea and building a Standard Hotel in the Meatpacking District, Balazs is scoping out an island retreat for his Standard Hotels brand.

Balazs paid nearly $5 million for the Maison Tropicale, a prefabricated aluminum house designed by Jean Prouvé recently and plans to install the building at a new Standard resort hotel he's developing somewhere in the islands.

This is actually a first in hotel hype--we know what the place will look like but we don't know where it will actually be. Well played Andre, well played.

As for the Maison Tropicale, these were built in the 1940s by Prouvé for the French bureaucrats in Niger but today are considered a gem in the rare midcentury prefab gems. The Dwell Blog has some more info on the place, including interior pics. But as you may have already guessed, the Maison Tropicale is not that spacious (about 59" x 32" x 16"), so we're guessing this will be a special suite in the Standard Hotel.

Related Stories:
· Jean Prouvé's Maison Tropicale at design auction [IHT]
· Pacific Overture [Page Six]
· PREFAB FRIDAY: Jean Prouve's Maison Tropicale For Sale! [Dwell]