Due to its great success Rietveld’s Chair is once again available, as the first instalment in a new series entitled Premsela Design Stories. Gerrit Rietveld’s world-famous Red Blue Chair is the visual icon for De Stijl on the Canon of Dutch History website. The publication Rietveld’s Chair is the result of art historian Marijke Kuper’s investigation into the genesis and development, use and reception of the chair, filmed by graphic designer and filmmaker Lex Reitsma.
The Red-Blue Chair by furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld belongs, along with the Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe and the Chaise Longue by Le Corbusier, to the most famous pieces of modern furniture in the world.
DVD PAL, Region-0
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Run Time: 53 min.
Language: Dutch, English
Subtitles: Dutch, English
Due to its great success Rietveld’s Chair is once again available, as the first instalment in a new series entitled Premsela Design Stories. Gerrit Rietveld’s world-famous Red Blue Chair is the visual icon for De Stijl on the Canon of Dutch History website. The publication Rietveld’s Chair is the result of art historian Marijke Kuper’s investigation into the genesis and development, use and reception of the chair, filmed by graphic designer and filmmaker Lex Reitsma.
The Red-Blue Chair by furniture designer and architect Gerrit Rietveld belongs, along with the Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe and the Chaise Longue by Le Corbusier, to the most famous pieces of modern furniture in the world.
The chair is found in important museum collections all over the world. Rietveld’s Chair is the result of an investigation into the genesis and development, use and reception of this modern classic by art historian Marijke Kuper. The book presents new facts and visual materials as well as an overview of all the prewar examples of the chair discovered thus far. It is an openended overview, because there is still a chance that an unknown original model of the Red-Blue Chair, or one presumed lost, could suddenly surface somewhere.
DVD PAL, Region-0
Aspect ratio: 16:9
Run Time: 53 min.
Language: Dutch, English
Subtitles: Dutch, English
