Gerrit Rietveld: the designer and his collection - Rietveld Originals
Rietveld develops into a versatile designer with a strong vision; his architecture and furniture designs become world-famous. His Red and Blue Chair, Zig-Zag Chair, Crate pieces and Press Room Chair are now true design classics that are impossible to imagine museums and modern interiors without.
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld | Modernist, De Stijl, Furniture | Britannica
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch architect and furniture designer notable for his application of the tenets of the de Stijl movement. He was an apprentice in his father’s cabinetmaking business from 1899 to 1906 and later studied architecture in Utrecht.
Furniture - Rietveld Stichting
In total Rietveld designed more than 350 pieces of furniture. For his houses and buildings he also designed many kinds of cabinets, such as closets, wall cabinets, kitchen cabinets, bookcases etc. Yet only a few designs are widely known.
Design Evolution: Rethinking Furniture with Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Feb 27, 2021 · One of his chair models of the late 1920s was made from clamped scaffolding poles. Rietveld worked with cardboard, making models to develop his ideas rather than sketching them on paper. Though he worked chiefly in wood, he …
Gerrit Rietveld - Wikipedia
Rietveld broke with De Stijl in 1928 and became associated with a more functionalist style of architecture, known as either Nieuwe Zakelijkheid or Nieuwe Bouwen. The same year he joined the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne.
The Story Behind Gerrit Rietveld's Iconic Armchair
Mar 18, 2022 · The best-known designs by Gerrit Rietveld—his circa 1920s De Stijl Red Blue chair, his 1930s Zig-Zag seat—do not exactly scream comfort.
The Story Behind The Iconic Zig-Zag Chair - Architectural Digest
Mar 24, 2018 · In the early 1930s, Dutch department store Metz & Co. asked Gerrit Rietveld to do something unprecedented: design a chair for mass production. The architect agreed, proposing a Z-shaped perch...
De Stijl - Architectural Life
Mies’s metal-and-leather Barcelona Chair, originally made for the German Pavilion at the Barcelona Exposition and then widely copied, is the most famous example. Gerrit Rietveld’s Red-Blue Chair (see below), a structure of planes and lines like a three-dimensional Mondrian painting, symbolizes De Stijl for many people. Barcelona Chair
Rietveld Originals | Furniture designs by Gerrit Rietveld
A design by Gerrit Rietveld is more than just a piece of furniture. As one of the Netherlands' best-known architects and designers, Rietveld created furniture with extraordinary stories. Groundbreaking designs that have permanently changed the traditional view of design. DISCOVER MORE
The Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld: when a piece of …
Jun 3, 2016 · In 1918, Gerrit Rietveld designed a chair that would become a landmark in design history: the chair Red and Blue - Red Blue Chair-. At the time, its exposed, stripped-down structure was a UFO in the furniture world.
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