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Gerrit Rietveld

cristinalebed2102 — 2024-12-13 17:17:20 UTC

One of the Netherlands' most famous and innovative architects, furniture makers and designers. Rietveld learned the trade of furniture maker from his father and developed into the architect of the art movement De Stijl. Rietveld was involved in the Spectrum collection from an early age. During the war years, he was appointed by then director Piet Blijenburg as a member of the collection's assessment committee. In the 1950s, Rietveld designed various pieces of furniture for Spectrum. In addition to his fame as an architect, Rietveld also acquired great fame as a furniture designer. Many of the pieces of furniture are part of the collection of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht. The Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the Drents Museum also have work by Rietveld in their collections.

Berlin chair

cristinalebed2102 — 2024-12-13 17:22:14 UTC

In 1923, Gerrit Rietveld designed his iconic Berlin chair for the 'Juryfreie Kunstschau' in Berlin. Besides the Red-Blue chair, this is one of Rietveld's most famous chairs. In 1960, Rietveld designed two new versions of the chair for the boardroom of the National Academy of Arts in Amsterdam. In this second version, a cushion was used and one of the chairs (the chairman's) was equipped with a higher backrest.

Red-blue chair

cristinalebed2102 — 2024-12-13 17:31:15 UTC

The prototype of this chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld dates from 1919, but this version in red, blue, silver-grey and black was probably made around 1925. The earlier versions were made of brown or black stained wood. From the 1950s onwards, the famous version of the red-blue chair with yellow details, dating from 1923, acquired iconic status and became the most important three-dimensional object of De Stijl. The special position of the chair within this movement was reinforced by the use of primary colours. What is striking about the design is the construction: each element retains its independence and is not interrupted. The colour reinforces the individual character of each component in this open structure. In addition, the lines and surfaces of the chair move three-dimensionally in space. Rietveld is known for his innovative furniture designs as well as for his famous Rietveld Schröder House.

Zig Zag chair

cristinalebed2102 — 2024-12-13 17:38:08 UTC

Rietveld designed several chairs during his career that had to be made seamlessly from one piece of material. It was a kind of ultimate construction puzzle for him. The Zig Zag is a variation on this, made from one piece of sheet but not seamless and with a very daring construction. The Zig Zag is seen as the purest example of the synthesis between form, function and construction in Rietveld's oeuvre.

The classic model of the Zig Zag chair only came into being after a number of experiments in various materials. Attempts to make the design from fiber, steel tube, plywood and sheet steel failed. In the end, the execution of four wooden Bruynzeel shelves turned out to be the easiest and strongest. Rietveld came up with several variations on the Zig Zag chair in the thirties and forties of the twentieth century.

Rietveld Schoder House

cristinalebed2102 — 2024-12-13 17:49:42 UTC

The Rietveld Schröder House is a house designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1923-1924 in the city of Utrecht. The house is fully built according to the ideas of the art movement De Stijl. Rietveld designed the house for Truus Schröder-Schräder, who lived there from January 1925 until her death in 1985. The house is located at Prins Hendriklaan 50 in the Wilhelminapark neighborhood and can be visited via a guided tour. It has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List since 2000.