LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Gerrit Rietveld
built 191 days ago
Gerrit Rietveld, born in Utrecht, was a son of a cabinetmaker and began early to work in his father´s workshop. Rietveld became an independent cabinetmaker in 1911. Later he attended P.J.C. Klaarhamer´s classes for architectural drawing.
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Gerrit Rietveld was part of the de Stijl movement. The movement was to return to handmade furniture and revolting against the "machine age" of production. He is most famous for his Red & Blue Chair.
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The original The Utrecht furniture maker and architect Gerrit Rietveld made his first ‘crate furniture’ in 1934, using the ‘crate wood’ that was usually used as packaging material. The Crate Chair was sold as a assembly kit and available in a variety of colours. Rietveld’s lifelong passion was to make objects with aesthetic qualities available to a wider public. The Junior Crate Chair is a special version by Rietveld by Rietveld, in which the original proportions have been reduced by a third. Rietveld by Rietveld has chosen not to use crate wood, but solid beech wood, which is of higher quality and longer lasting. Every chair is provided with a chip, a tag with a unique number and certificate of authenticity.
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Gerrit Rietveld designed the Zig-Zag Chair between 1932-34. Many believe the Zig Zag Chair was a direct result of Theo van Doesburg's call for the introduction of "oblique" lines to rectify the inherent tension between both vertical and horizontal elements that permeated interior spaces. Gerrit Rietveld's original of the Zig Zag Chair was constructed of oak and brass fittings, and was commissioned by Metz & Company, Amsterdam until 1955. The Zig-Zag chair was a complete departure from all previous chairs. It has no legs, it is made of planes only, and the supporting part is diagonal. It can be used as a stacking chair, and it requires a minimum of space.
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Gerrit Rietveld was born in Utrecht as the son of a cabinetmaker. At the age of eleven he began to work in the workshop of his father. In 1911 he set himself up as a woodworker and took part in courses on architectural draftsmanship with P.J.C. Klaarhamer. From 1917 to 1918 he designed the Red-Blue Chair and in 1919 he joined the De-Stijl movement as one of its first members. His famous chair design was published for the first time in the magazine "De Stijl" and was included in the Bauhaus exhibition of 1923.
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Gerrit Rietveld was born in Utrecht, Netherlands and lived and worked there all his life. Gerrit learned first cabinet making from his father. After leaving the family workshop in 1911, he trained as an architectural draftsman, before he became finally an architect in 1919. Rietveld's most important architectural work, the Schroder House in Utrecht (1924), correlates closely with his furniture designs. Its rigorous geometries and open-plan layout, articulated with screens and panels of color, form a new, so called modernist, aesthetic.
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