Beugelstoel (1927) – Gerrit Rietveld
(Source: Reformatorisch Dagblad)
Tag: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
RnB Classic – Rietveld Red and Blue Redesigned by D-W-A
RnB Classic – Rietveld Red and Blue Redesigned by D-W-A
The reDesign project is based on a 12” vinyl single release and is realized at a scale of 1:3 so as to keep the pieces around 12″. The Red and Blue chair has been interpreted according to various musical genres including pop, classical, chill-out and dub.
D-W-A took the early Red and Blue, not painted yet, or painted in one color like white, and made a scale model according to the original and dubbed it “Classic”
About D-W-A | working with music
D-W-A is a collective of music-obsessed designers that draws its inspiration from the music industry where sampling, remixing, covers and collaborations are commonplace. The designers remain anonymous to keep their 9-5 careers separate
Hopmi Chair by Rietveld Discovered in 2008
Hopmi Chair by Gerrit Rietveld
In 2008 this chair was donated as lose parts in a bag to the Centraal Museum of Utrecht, a Dutch museum with a large collection of Rietveld furniture. Although the design was known. It was believed this chair was never produced. Well until it was donated to the museum: It appeared a small Dutch manufacturer by the name of Hopmi had produced some pieces. Originally Hopmi produced locks for bikes, but in the prewar 30ies it ventured into furniture because of the economic depression. The chair can be taken apart and stored as a flatpack. Ikea avant la lettre.
Via Design Blog.
Update
Just to demonstrate how wonderfully small the world has become with Internet:
I searched a bit on Hopmi and it turned out that the factory made other parts for bikes as well. I found this shield:
Found on a Dutch Blog reporting about a visit of the China Bicycle Museum in Beijing….where this Hopmi shield was on display.
Via Chinablog.nl
Blue Utrecht Settee by Rietveld – 2012 IMM Cologne (09)
Just Chairs – 4 Famous Chairs Reinterpreted by Michael Kluver
Just Chairs – 4 Famous Chairs Reinterpreted by Dutch designer Michael Kluver
From left to right: Eames, Breuer, Rietveld and MackIntosh
The chairs in this project are altered versions of modernist design classics. All pushed back into the simple archetype form. All of them are now dominated by simple ergonomic dimensions. Same seating height,seating width, seating depth, overall height, and angle of the backrest. Demystifying the past and asking important questions with regards to the future.
Via Michael Kluver: just chairs.