Rietveld chair 1918 modern classics Dutch Design poster 1984

Text:
Rietveld Chair 1918, modern classics, Dutch Design
© Gerrit Rietveld 1984 c/o Beeldrecht Amsterdam / blauw - rode stoel 1918 / Art Unlimited, Postbus 1760, 1000 BT Amsterdam, tel. 020-851011* / Printed in Holland / no. 83

Creator:
Art Unlimited | Gerrit Rietveld 1984 © Beeldrecht Amsterdam

Object:
Vintage affiche | poster • 1984

Country:
The Netherlands

Design period:
1984

Production period:
1984

Identifying marks:
Copyright line on the top left side

Style:
The Stijl, modernism

Condition:
In very good condition. The poster is mounted on hardboard.

Material:
Paper

Colour:
Red, yellow, blue, black

Dimensions:
L 60 x W 80 x H 0.1 cm

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (1888 Utrecht - 1964 Utrecht, The Netherlands (biography).

As one of the advocates of De Stijl (“The Style”), an early 20th century Dutch artistic movement, furniture designer and architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld championed simple geometry and a palette restricted to primary colors, black, and white. Rietveld’s two most enduring legacies are the Red and Blue Chair (1918), which looks almost like a 3D version of a Piet Mondrian painting, and the Rietveld Schroder House, for which it was specifically designed. Built in Utrecht in 1924 and originally commissioned without walls, the Schroder House has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. The iconic chair, like the iconic house, was designed for visual balance, or as Rietveld himself said, so that “no part dominates or is subordinate to the others.”