Red Prototype Danish Chair by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

This chair came up at an auction of Sotheby’s, New York, 18 December 2013 and was sold to the Dutch Centraal Museum in Utrecht which has an impressive Rietveld Collection. Catalogue Note For Rietveld, and most of his fellow architects, the German occupation of The Netherlands during the Second World War brought about a lapse … Continue reading “Red Prototype Danish Chair by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld”

Yellow Beugel Chair by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

On December 7, 2022 this Yellow Beugelchair by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld fetched $30,240 at Phillips ~~~~~ Chairs! gje

The Hopmi Theater Folding Chair by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

I’ve featured the discovery of the Hopmi chair in 2008. Later I’ve featured the re edition of a certain number of new Hopmi Chairs. A friend of mine bought one of them so I have my own photo of that one. Now I found out that there is a sequel. There seem to exist several … Continue reading “The Hopmi Theater Folding Chair by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld”

Armchair no. R54 by Gerrit Rietveld at Wright

No better chair than a Rietveld chair to pick up the pace of chair blogging again (albeit there are many distractions out there!) This chair is on auction at Wright and estimated at $15,000–20,000. Update: result: $18,750

Red Blue Armchair by Gerrit Rietveld

In November 2019 Wright auctioned parts of the Boyd collection where this Red Blue Chair was sold for $21,250.