Over a dozen pieces of furniture by Gerrit Rietveld from the collection of late architect Brian Housden are going under the hammer at Christie’s. Representing a ‘complete survey’ of Rietveld’s most ...

Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964), a Dutch furniture designer and architect ... Originally made in plain beech wood, the design was deliberately kept as simple as possible because Rietveld wanted ...

It is inspired by the Red and Blue chair, right, designed by the Dutch modernist Gerrit ... weather wood, and add at least half a day if you want to paint it in four colors a la Rietveld.

Still as visionary and eccentric as it was when it was built in the 1920s, the Schroder House by Gerrit Rietveld continues ... had previous experience making furniture, especially when noticing ...

In the early 1930s, Dutch department store Metz & Co. asked Gerrit Rietveld to do something unprecedented: design a chair for mass production. The architect agreed, proposing a Z-shaped perch made ...

The best-known designs by Gerrit ... of the models by Rietveld stimulated a lot of curiosity,” says Barbara Lehmann, head of the historical archives at Cassina, the Italian furniture brand ...

The crisp lines of Gerrit Rietveld’s “red and blue chair ... Making your own garden furniture is like growing plants from seed, Benarcik says. It is deeply satisfying, even if your first ...

Photographer Arjan Bronkhorst has created a book that aims to expose under-the-radar projects by revered Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld. Dezeen has picked out seven of the most intriguing.

What else could you want from a chair? Invented in the early 1930s by the Dutch designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld, the Zig-Zag chair was, in his words, a designer joke. “He was playing with ...

In 2024, the iconic Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht will celebrate its 100th anniversary. Gerrit Rietveld designed and built the house in close collaboration with his secret lover and creative ...

In 1955, Gerrit ... of the Rietveld Pavilion was a constant source of concern. The main questions were how to protect the minimalist structure (made of concrete, brick, steel, glass, wood and ...