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Gerrit Rietveld
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Born Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
24 June 1888(1888-06-24)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Died 26 June 1964 (aged 76)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Resting place Soestbergen Cemetery
Utrecht, Netherlands
Nationality Dutch
Occupation Furniture designer, architect
Known for Red and Blue Chair (1917)
Schröder House (1924)
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (24 June 1888–26 June, 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.

In 1916, Rietveld started his own furniture factory, while studying architecture. Rietveld designed the Red and Blue Chair in 1917, but changed its colours to the familiar style in 1918 after he became influenced by the 'De Stijl' movement, of which he became a member in 1919, the same year in which he became an architect. In 1924 he designed his first building the Rietveld Schröder House in close collaboration with the owner Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck. The house is small. The design is conventional on the ground floor, but radical on the top floor, being entirely open plan, with no fixed walls. The design seems like a three dimensional realisation of a Mondrian painting. The house in Utrecht is a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000.

Rietveld broke with the 'De Stijl' movement in 1928 and switched to the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid. The same year he joined the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne.

He designed the "Zig-Zag" chair in 1932 and started the design of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, which was finshed after his death.

Red and Blue Chair (1917)
External links
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Rietveld at the Centraal Museum Utrecht
www.ModernFurnitureClassics.com Rietveld Bio
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Categories: 1888 births | 1964 deaths | Dutch architects | Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne members | Furniture makers | Dutch architecture | De Stijl | People from Utrecht (city) | Dutch furniture designers | Dutch industrial designers

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