Chairs, Chair Design and Chair Designers
Rietveld Zig Zag Variation 1 – Old Ladder Back by Garry Knox Bennett I found Garry Knox Bennett‘s Gallery of Chairs. He likes to create series of chairs. Gerrit Rietveld has inspired Garry to a series of Zig Zag variations. I really like all of them. Rather than creating one very lengthy post, I’ll feature … Continue reading “Rietveld Zig Zag Variation 1 – Old Ladder Back by Garry Knox Bennett”
In surfing the internet for material for Chair Blog it helps me that I have a very associative mind. I was Googling pictures for “Burnt Rietveld”, because I noticed that I had no photos yet from Maarten Baas’s (in my view in)famous burned chair series which Maarten produced or maybe even created (I would avoid … Continue reading “Rietveld – Baas – Gehry – Che Eyzenbach Connections?”
And thanks to my visit to La Suite I now can share my own photos of a black leather with white stitches Utrecht or Metz Armchair by Dutch architect and furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld with you. It is much smaller than I had imagined. I love it!
modernity.se offers this creation of Dutch Architect/Designer Gerrit Rietveld for sale. I had no prior knowledge of it. Modernity Se offers vintage 20th century design furniture, lighting, ceramics and glass. The emphasis is on Scandinavian design, by among others, Wegner, Juhl, Aalto, Mathsson, Jacobsen, Salto, Friberg, Wirkkala and Sarpaneva. At a Christie’s auction in London … Continue reading “Gerrit Rietveld’s Danish Armchair”
The reissue by Cassina of Gerrit Rietveld’s Utrecht or Metz Chair: IMM Furniture Show Cassina presented its Maestri collection which re-produces classical designs in new materials. The exclusive reproduction rights have been acquired by the company for Le Corbusier, Rietveld, Mackintosh and some more. Via Core77.