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Gerrit Rietveld
Born
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
24 June 1888(1888-06-24)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Died
26 June 1964 (aged 76)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Resting place
Soestbergen Cemetery
Utrecht, Netherlands
Nationality
Dutch
Occupation
Furniture designer, architect
Known for
Red and Blue Chair (1917)
Schrder House (1924)
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (25 June 188827 June, 1965) 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 Schrder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Rietveld designed his famous Red and Blue Chair in 1917. In 1918, he started his own furniture factory, and changed the chair’s colors after becoming influenced by the ‘De Stijl’ movement, of which he became a member in 1919, the same year in which he became an architect. He designed his first building, the Rietveld Schrder House, in 1924, in close collaboration with the owner Truus Schrder-Schrder. Built in Utrecht on the Prins Hendriklaan 50, the house has a conventional ground floor, but is radical on the top floor, lacking fixed walls but instead relying on sliding walls to create and change living spaces. The design seems like a three-dimensional realization of a Mondrian painting. The house is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.
Rietveld broke with the ‘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 Congrs Internationaux d’Architecture Moderne. He designed the “Zig-Zag” chair in 1934 and started the design of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which was finished after his death. He built hundreds of homes, many of which in the city of Utrecht.
Red and Blue Chair (1917)
Rietveld Schrder House in Utrecht (1924)
Metz & Co. in The Hague
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Gerrit Rietveld
Rietveld at the Centraal Museum Utrecht
www.ModernFurnitureClassics.com Rietveld Bio
Great Buildings Online
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