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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.
Red and Blue Chair in the Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Cologne Rietveld designed his Red and Blue Chair in 1917 which has become an iconic piece of modern furniture. Hoping that much of his furniture would eventually be mass-produced rather than handcrafted, Rietveld aimed for simplicity in construction. [ 4 ]
Schematic depiction of a Rietveld joint. The three battens are shown in the primary colours red, blue and yellow, where the yellow batten is oriented orthogonal to the screen. The locations of the dowels are shown in gray; the dowel connecting the yellow batten to the blue batten is the third and final one.
These 50 iconic types of chairs each have an important place in design history. Here's a look at who designed them and where they came from.
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Interlocking components of the Red and Blue chair. The machine aesthetic label was born in the beginning of the 20th century, when the newly created machines embodied the purity of the function. Architects were fascinated by the possibilities of the clean geometric forms and smooth surfaces [6] enabled by the new construction techniques.
Gerrit Rietveld – Red and Blue Chair (colours added in De Stijl style at about this date) Stanley Royle – Sheffield from Wincobank Wood; John Singer Sargent – Sir Philip Sassoon [5] Stanley Spencer – The Betrayal; Lorado Taft – The Recording Angel (sculpture, Waupun, Wisconsin) [6] Suzanne Valadon – Blue Room; World War I Memorial ...