Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was both a craftsman cabinet-maker, re-inventing chairs and furniture, as well as an architect working with rationalist ideas in the context of European architecture. In 1918 Rietveld joined the De Stijl movement which had sprung up around the review of that name founded by Theo van Doesburg. Rietveld soon became one of the most distinguished interpreters of the neoplastic message. Among his most important works are the Schröder house at Utrecht designed in 1924; the Row Houses in Utrecht; the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennial; the sculpture pavilion in the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller at Otterloo, and the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Italian furniture manufacturer Cassina continues to produce the Red and Blue chair, the Zig-Zag, the Schröder 1, and the Utrecht in their Cassina I Maestri collection.

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

View collection