Description

Gerrit Rietveld conceived of each piece of furniture as an ideal, abstract composition of surfaces and lines in space. The rigor with which he put this into practice makes Rood blauwe stoel a key object in modern furniture design. The form of abstraction Rietveld adopts here bears comparison to painter Piet Mondrian.

Details

Material Description:

• Scale:  1:6, 57 x 69 x 79 mm
• Material:  Bent Plywood, Brass
  

Designer

Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Rietveld (Utrecht 24 June 1888 - 25 June 1964) learned the craft of furniture making at an early age in his father's traditional furniture workshop. Later, he apprenticed as an architect and came into contact with members of the De Stijl art movement such as Robert van 't Hoff, Bart van der Leck and Theo van Doesburg.