Around 1923 Rietveld introduced two new formal elements in his furniture designs: these were asymmetry and constructions with flat panels. Both of these formal elements can be arrived at by consistently thinking through the consequences of a previous...

Rietveld began and ended his career as an architect with the same kind of a commission, namely renovating a jewelry shop. The chairs for the jeweler Steltman were mirror images of each other and originally covered in white leather. The asymmetric for...

Hocker oder Beistelltisch Eiche lackiert, Sitzfläche rot oder weiß, Untergestell schwarz mit weißen Verstrebungsenden, 47 x 40 H 45 cm. Gerrit Rietveld hat insgesamt über 250 Möbel gestaltet. Er ist bekannt als Architekt...

Hocker oder Beistelltisch Eiche lackiert, Sitzfläche weiß oder rot, Untergestell schwarz mit weißen Verstrebungsenden, 47 x 40 H 45 cm. Gerrit Rietveld hat insgesamt über 250 Möbel gestaltet. Er ist bekannt als Archite...

The Press Room Chair is the low version of a series of three chairs, that Rietveld designed for the Press Room of the UNESCO building in Paris. The chair was meant as a comfortable lounge chairfor the low reading table for the journalists. Due to bud...

Rietveld began and ended his career as an architect with the same kind of a commission, namely renovating a jewelry shop. The chairs for the jeweler Steltman were mirror images of each other and originally covered in white leather. The asymmetric for...

In 1923 Rietveld received a commission from P. van der Pluym, the owner of the shop named Wessels, to make chairs for the Catholic Military old-age Home in Utrecht. The stretchers and legs of this chair are joined by notches which were further streng...