THE 1923 RED BLUE CHAIR DESIGNED BY GERRIT RIETVELD
A true icon of the Dutch de Stijl art and architecture movement, Gerrit Rietveld’s ‘Red Blue’ chair is on exhibition at museums around the world including New York’s MOMA.
This particular example is a genuine limited production (no. 7742) by Cassina Italy and presents in outstanding condition with only several small marks. It retains the original documentation and branding as pictured.
Rietveld believed that there was a greater goal for the furniture designer than just physical comfort: the well-being and comfort of the spirit. Rietveld and his de Stijl colleagues—including the movement’s most famous theorist and practitioner, Piet Mondrian—sought to create a utopia based on a harmonic human-made order, which they believed could renew Europe after the devastating turmoil of World War I. New forms, in their view, were essential to this rebuilding.
Dimensions: 867mm high x 660mm wide x 838mm deep
Available to view at our Alexandria Studio via appointment and please contact us should you have any questions about this or any of our pieces or services.
A true icon of the Dutch de Stijl art and architecture movement, Gerrit Rietveld’s ‘Red Blue’ chair is on exhibition at museums around the world including New York’s MOMA.
This particular example is a genuine limited production (no. 7742) by Cassina Italy and presents in outstanding condition with only several small marks. It retains the original documentation and branding as pictured.
Rietveld believed that there was a greater goal for the furniture designer than just physical comfort: the well-being and comfort of the spirit. Rietveld and his de Stijl colleagues—including the movement’s most famous theorist and practitioner, Piet Mondrian—sought to create a utopia based on a harmonic human-made order, which they believed could renew Europe after the devastating turmoil of World War I. New forms, in their view, were essential to this rebuilding.
Dimensions: 867mm high x 660mm wide x 838mm deep
Available to view at our Alexandria Studio via appointment and please contact us should you have any questions about this or any of our pieces or services.
A true icon of the Dutch de Stijl art and architecture movement, Gerrit Rietveld’s ‘Red Blue’ chair is on exhibition at museums around the world including New York’s MOMA.
This particular example is a genuine limited production (no. 7742) by Cassina Italy and presents in outstanding condition with only several small marks. It retains the original documentation and branding as pictured.
Rietveld believed that there was a greater goal for the furniture designer than just physical comfort: the well-being and comfort of the spirit. Rietveld and his de Stijl colleagues—including the movement’s most famous theorist and practitioner, Piet Mondrian—sought to create a utopia based on a harmonic human-made order, which they believed could renew Europe after the devastating turmoil of World War I. New forms, in their view, were essential to this rebuilding.
Dimensions: 867mm high x 660mm wide x 838mm deep
Available to view at our Alexandria Studio via appointment and please contact us should you have any questions about this or any of our pieces or services.
ABOUT THE DESIGNER
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, (born June 24, 1888, Utrecht, Neth.—died June 25, 1964, Utrecht), 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.
Rietveld began his association with the movement known as de Stijl in 1918. At about the same time he created his famous red-and-blue armchair, which, in its emphasis on geometry and in its use of primary colours, was a realisation of de Stijl principles (see photograph). In 1921 he designed a small Amsterdam jewellery shop, one of the first examples of the application of these principles to architecture. His masterpiece is the Schroeder House in Utrecht (1924), remarkable for its interplay of right-angle forms, planes, and lines, and for its use of primary colours. His mass-produced houses at Utrecht (1931–34) were closely related in style. He remained associated with de Stijl until it was dissolved in 1931.
From 1936 until after World War II, Rietveld devoted himself to furniture design. After the war he received a number of important architectural commissions, including the De Ploeg Textile Works (1956), Bergeyk; a housing development (1954–56), Hoograven; and the art academy (1962), Arnhem.