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The highlight of a celebratory "Rietveld Year" in Utrecht, the exhibition "Rietveld's Universe" opened at the Centraal Museum and compared him and his work with famous contemporaries like Wright, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. [10] Two software tools, both for code review, have been named after Gerrit Rietveld: Gerrit and Rietveld.
The Red and Blue Chair is a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld. It represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl art movement in three dimensions. It features several Rietveld joints. The original chair was constructed of unstained beech wood and was not painted red, blue, yellow, and black until around 1923.
Zig Zag Chair in the Carnegie Museum of Art. The Zig Zag-chair is a chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld sometime between 1930 and 1934.. It is a minimalistic design without legs, made by four flat wooden slabs (originally in Elm, now in pine wood) that are merged in a Z-shape using dovetailed and bolted or screwed joints.
The museum opened on 2 June 1973, [1] and its buildings were designed by Gerrit Rietveld and Kisho Kurokawa. The museum contains the largest collection of Van Gogh's paintings and drawings in the world. In 2017, the museum had 2.3 million visitors and was the most-visited museum in the Netherlands, and the 23rd-most-visited art museum in the world.
Rietveld Schröder House (1924), designed by Gerrit Rietveld. During the 20th century, Dutch architects like Berlage, Van Doesburg, Van Eesteren, Rietveld, Oud and Van der Vlugt played a leading role in the development of modern architecture in the Netherlands, as well as internationally.
De Stijl (/ d ə ˈ s t aɪ l /, Dutch: [də ˈstɛil]; 'The Style') was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 by a group of artists and architects based in Leiden (Theo van Doesburg, J.J.P. Oud), Voorburg (Vilmos Huszár, Jan Wils) and Laren (Piet Mondrian, Bart van der Leck).
The following is a list of notable architects – well-known individuals with a large body of published work or notable structures, ... Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964)
Rietveld Red and Blue chair Ribbon Chair by Pierre Paulin. Recliner, [46] a chair with a reclining back; most are armchairs and may come with a footrest that unfolds when the back is reclined; Red and Blue Chair a chair designed by Dutch architect and furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld. Resilient Chair, designed by Eva Zeisel for Hudson ...