If you are looking for a stylish outdoor chair then the Rietveld Steltman Chair by Dutch Terrazzo company Tomaello in concrete is something for you.
Tag: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
Witteveen High Chair by Gerrit Rietveld
I found this photo of the Witteveen High Chair (see also my post Design.nl: Two Dutch Musea Acquire Rietveld Baby Chair) on Dutch Design Double which contains an interview with Ingeborg de Roode, industrial design curator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (City Museum of Modern Art of Amsterdam) at the occasion of 2010 “Dutch Design Double”, two twinned exhibitions in Amsterdam and Utrecht (Centraal Museum), The netherlands each year.
About the Importance of Gerrit Rietveld’s designs in their collection I noted:
Our latest acquisition, a purchase we made in 2008 with the Centraal Museum and the support of different funding bodies: the Witteveen kinderstoel (Witteveen High Chair). The design from 1918 (just before the famous Red and Blue Chair) was a missing link in the Rietveld collection. Previously, we only knew about it from a black-and-white photo because the only existing example had been lost. It had crossed my mind: ‘If we could only find a second example of it…’ It is very clear in this design how Rietveld was, at that time, on some sort of quest. As well as that, I like the small models that Rietveld made of chairs and buildings: all slotting together very simply.
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Rietveld‘s work forms one of the key elements of our collection. We have many highlights, such as the aforementioned Witteveen High Chair; an early Red and Blue Chair; the prototype of the Zig-Zag Chair; the Birza Chair, which is made from one sheet of fibreboard; the Harrenstein Bedroom; the Aluminium Chair; and the Steltman Chair.
Finally an interesting piece of information about Rietveld’s Aluminum Chairs:
On 22 October, the results of a research into the four known Aluminium chairs by Rietveld will be presented in the Stedelijk Museum. Three chairs belong to public collections, of which one is in the Stedelijk. And the fourth is from a private collection. With the aluminum armchair, Rietveld experimented with material in combination with form (for instance: holes that were meant to provide more sturdiness) and possible methods of production (industrial with the help of fibre board).
Military Chair by Gerrit Rietveld
Found this Military Chair by Gerrit Rietveld at Wright where it fetched $21,600 in 2008.
Update: Same or similar chair fetched $21,250 in 2012
Rietveld Medina Crate Chair Variation by David van der Veldt
The Medina Variation of Rietveld’s Crate Chair by Dutch designer David van der Veldt, or, as Van der Veldt says: “The Medina Rietveld Fauteuil”.
In August, 2010 David van der Veldt was invited to particiate in a project called “ICI Casa ville inventieve†in Casablanca, Morocco.
Through engaging in the daily life of Casablanca the designers would gain insight into Moroccan culture and perception.
Van der Veldt was impressed by decorations engraved on wooden benches and the typical in layed Moroccan boxes. In the Medina he found a small community consisting of furniture makers. Van der Veldt worked with an engraver, Mohssine El Lyounssi, and a carpenter, Abdellah Lebchina, remaking a crate fauteuil designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1934 while applying the traditional Moroccan geometrical inlaypatterns using copper threat and sheep bone.
At the end of the project the results were exhibited in the Sacre Coeur church
About David van der Veldt
David is a Dutch designer who studied furniture making in Amsterdam, followed by studies at the Gerrit Rietveld academy, where he graduated from in 2009. He started his own design studio DVDV Design.
Pictures by Hicham Zemmar and Jamal Abdenasser
Left-handed Rietveld Red and Blue Chair interpretation by Julien Berthier
And another Rietveld interpretation. This time a funny one by Julien Berthier
Red and Blue Chair†by Gerrit Rietveld (1918) drawn with my left hand, and built by scrupulously following the resulting drawing.
The prototype was then given to a carpenter who produced a series of five identical copies.
via Julien Berthier. With thanks to Eloise Moorehead who pointed me to Julien’s site.