Although the chair was originally designed in 1918 its color scheme of primary colors red yellow blue plus black so closely associated with the de stijl group and its most famous theorist.
Gerrit thomas rietveld red and blue chair cost.
In the red blue chair rietveld manipulated rectilinear volumes and examined the interaction of vertical and horizontal planes much as he did in his architecture.
The crafts mastery of cassina s carpenters is seen in the execution of.
Rietveld in 1918 executed by g a.
24 june 1888 25 june 1964 was a dutch furniture designer and architect one of the principal members of the dutch artistic movement called de stijl rietveld is famous for his red and blue chair and for the rietveld schröder house which is a unesco world heritage site.
In 1923 gerrit rietveld designed his iconic berlin chair for the juryfreie kunstschau in berlin.
Rietveld produced his first prototypes in 1918.
It features several rietveld joints.
A version of the chair was sold by christies in 2011 for.
The red blue chair designed by g.
High x 60 cm.
Rietveld s two most enduring legacies are the red and blue chair which looks almost like a 3d version of a piet mondrian painting and the.
In 1960 rietveld designed two new versions of the chair for the boardroom of the rijksacademie van beeldende kunsten in amsterdam.
Download red and blue chair 3d model.
In the red blue chair rietveld manipulated rectilinear volumes and examined the interaction of vertical and horizontal planes in much the same way as he did in his architecture although the chair was originally designed in 1918 its color scheme of primary colors red yellow blue plus black so closely associated with the dutch de stijl art and architecture movement was applied around 1923.
In addition to the red blue chair this is one of rietveld s most famous chairs.
The red and blue chair was reported to be on loan to the delft university of technology faculty of architecture as part of an exhibition.
On may 13 2008 a fire destroyed the entire building but the red and blue chair was saved by firefighters.
A sculptural seat with a pure and rationalist form this chair became an authentic manifesto for neoplasticism embraced by the dutch de stijl movement in 1917.
Wide x 83 cm.
Designed by gerrit rietveld this chair provided an early example of a cantilevered seat and is composed of four wood boards articulated end to end to form an extremely eye catching example of an unstable structure.
This volume documents the best known and most typical furniture designs by gerrit rietveld down to the smallest the book contains working plans pin 635 red and blue armchair by gerrit thomas rietveld cassina.
As one of the advocates of de stijl the style an early 20th century dutch artistic movement furniture designer and architect gerrit thomas rietveld championed simple geometry and a palette restricted to primary colors black and white.
Groenekan utrechtseweg 315 de bilt nederland 86 cm.
Van de groenekan circa 1960 62 the underside of the seat lined with paper label inscribed g a.
