 |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Select > Who • What • When • Where • Which • Widgets |
| |
|
|
|
|
| Timeline |
|
 |
|
Item |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Gerrit Rietveld, Designer/Architect > 
In 1911, Rietveld started his own furniture factory, while studying architecture. Rietveld designed the 'Red and Blue Chair' in 1918, 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 the Schröder house for Truus Schröder-Schräder, with whom he cooperated. The house is located in Utrecht. The house, while guided by geometric forms, is asymmetrical.
Rietveld broke with the 'De Stijl' movement in 1928 and switched to the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid. The same year he joined the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne.
He designed the 'Zig-Zag' chair in 1934 and started the design of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.
|
| |
|
|
|
More on this Website >
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerrit_Rietveld
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Hendrik Petrus Berlage, Architect
Architect H.P. Berlage designed everything from napkin rings to new urban developments. But he is best known as the architect who instituted a new style of architecture i... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Piet Mondrian
In 1917, Mondrian became one of the founders of De Stijl. This group, which included Theo van Doesburg, Bart van der Leck, and Georges Vantongerloo, extended its principl... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Theo van Doesburg
In 1917, collaborating with the architects J. J. P. Oud and Jan Wils, van Doesburg founded the group De Stijl and the periodical of the same name; other original members... |
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Red and Blue Chair, Rietveld
In 1918, the architect Gerrit Thomas Rietveld designed a chair that affected not only furniture design, but the history of architecture. Rietveld's "Red and Blue" chair i... |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
|
 |
|
•
: double-click any word
|