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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.
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.
When the art academy in Amsterdam became part of the higher professional education system in 1968 and was given the status of an Academy for Fine Arts and Design, the name was changed to the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in honour of Rietveld. [9] "Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition" at the Barry Friedman Gallery, New York, in 1988 was the first ...
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A Rietveld joint is an overlapping joint of three battens in the three orthogonal directions. It was a prominent feature in the Red and Blue Chair that was designed by Gerrit Rietveld. In Gerrit Rietveld's furniture, many of these joints were doweled, meaning that the adjoining faces were connected with glued wooden pins.
Rietveld worked on several well-known Gispen furniture pieces, including the President office chair, and several light fixtures. He enjoyed a lot of artistic freedom at Gispen. His most well-known design is probably the Mondial chair, which he devised together with his father, Gerrit Rietveld.
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 ...
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