Gerrit Rietveld furniture
Gerrit Thomas Rietvelt (1888-1964) is one of the most significant members of ‘De Stijl’, the artistic movement born in Holland around 1920. The group developed theories about abstractions of forms that had been expressed in painting by the cubists. De Stijl artists also followed the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, whose influence was widely felt in Europe at that time.
Rietveld’s most important works are:
the Schröder house at Utrecht (1924)
the 'Row Houses' at Utrecht (1931-34);
the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Biennial (1954);
the sculpture pavilion in the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller at Otterloo
the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam (1955).
From Rietveld’s furniture work, Cassina has chosen for its own production: the ‘Red and Blue chair’ (1918), the ‘Zig-Zag chair’ (1934), the ‘Schröder 1 table’ (1923), the ‘Utrecht chair’ and ‘Utrecht sofa’ (1935). Cassina produces these pieces with the agreement of the Rietveld family.
