GR-RED AND BLUE CHAIR
GR-RED AND BLUE CHAIR
"Red and Blue" chair, designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1917, coloured in 1923. A frame of thin rods, joined without visible joinery, carries two flat planes for the seat and the backrest. The rods form an open grid of lines rather than a closed volume. It represents one of the first designs to emerge from the De Stijl movement. Rietveld sought simplicity and standardisation, parts he hoped could eventually be mass-produced rather than handcrafted individually. He treated the chair as an exercise in the same vertical and horizontal planes he used in architecture. This example was manufactured under Rietveld's supervision by his craftsman Gerard van de Groenekan, in De Bilt, Netherlands, before 1951. It retains its original paint and has never been repainted, one of very few surviving in this condition. Some of the first chairs were made for the Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht, a UNESCO World Heritage Site Rietveld designed in 1924, still one of the best-known examples of De Stijl architecture.Dimensions:
86 x 66 x 78 cm / 34 x 26 x 31 inMaterials:
Painted wood, aluminiumLiterature:
The Complete Rietveld Furniture, Vöge, p. 58-59; Gerrit Rietveld: The Complete Works 1888-1964, Kuper and van Zijl,p. 74-76.Terms:
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