- The original Red and Blue Chair designed by Gerrit Rietvelt was made of unstained beech wood and was not painted until the early 1920s when he added bright primary colors at the suggestion of fellow De Stijl member Bart van der Leck.
- The chair is now housed in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, where it retains the red, blue, and yellow colors that were added around 1923.
- Rietvelt's chair design featured overlapping joints between three battens in the three orthogonal directions, known as Rietveld joints, which were a prominent feature of the iconic Red and Blue Chair.
The movement strives to express universal concepts through elimination, reduction, abstraction, simplification, and a dynamic asymmetrical balance of rectangles, planes, verticals, horizontals, the primary colors, and black, white, and gray.
The movement strives to express universal concepts through elimination, reduction, abstraction, simplification, and a dynamic asymmetrical balance of rectangles, planes, verticals, horizontals, the primary colors, and black, white, and gray.
Antonio Sant'Elia was an Italian architect and a key member of the Futurist movement in architecture. He left behind almost no completed works of architecture and is primarily remembered for his bold sketches and influence on modern architecture.
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣɛrɪt ˈtoːmɑs ˈritfɛlt]; 24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A presentation that explains about De stijl architecture within the contemporary architecture course, where it presents the most important principles that it applies in addition to the characteristics and pioneers of this school
Tavole di analisi di un oggetto di design per esame di Rappresentazione Tridimensionale
C.d.L. in Disegno Industriale
Facoltà di Architettura, La Sapienza
Ilaria Trombì
Antonio Sant'Elia was an Italian architect and a key member of the Futurist movement in architecture. He left behind almost no completed works of architecture and is primarily remembered for his bold sketches and influence on modern architecture.
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɣɛrɪt ˈtoːmɑs ˈritfɛlt]; 24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. One of the principal members of the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl, Rietveld is famous for his Red and Blue Chair and for the Rietveld Schröder House, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
A presentation that explains about De stijl architecture within the contemporary architecture course, where it presents the most important principles that it applies in addition to the characteristics and pioneers of this school
Tavole di analisi di un oggetto di design per esame di Rappresentazione Tridimensionale
C.d.L. in Disegno Industriale
Facoltà di Architettura, La Sapienza
Ilaria Trombì
A short presentation on the De Stijl movement and its influences.
Part of the Architectural Composition 3 course of the University of Alicante
Academic Year 2014/2015
The Netherlands-based De Stijl movement embraced an abstract, pared-down aesthetic centered on basic visual elements such as geometric forms and primary colors.
AP Art History - Early twentieth Century Art - Fauvism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, surrealism, dada, constructivism, DeStijl, Suprematism, International Style, Bauhaus, Prairie Style, Frida b
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Hadj Ounis's most notable work is his sculpture titled "Metamorphosis." This piece showcases Ounis's mastery of form and texture, as he seamlessly combines metal and wood to create a dynamic and visually striking composition. The juxtaposition of the two materials creates a sense of tension and harmony, inviting viewers to contemplate the relationship between nature and industry.
2. The original chair was constructed of unstained beech wood and was not painted until the early 1920s. Fellow member of De Stijl and architect, Bart van der Leck, saw his original model and suggested that he add bright colours. He built the new model of thinner wood and painted it entirely black with areas of primary colors attributed to De Stijl movement.
The Museum of Modern Art houses the chair in its permanent collection. The red, blue and yellow colors were added around 1923.
Red and Blue Chair
by Gerrit Rietvelt
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1. Bart van der Leck
2. Gerrit Rietvelt
3. Original Chair (Copy)
4. Red and Blue Chair Photo from MoMA
3. Rietvelt Joint
A Rietveld joint, also called a Cartesian node in furniture-making, is an overlapping joint of three battens in the three orthogonal directions. It was a prominent feature in the Red and Blue Chair that was designed by Gerrit Rietveld.
Fig.1 is a schematic depiction of a Rietveld joint. The three battens are shown in the primary colours red, blue and yellow, where the yellow batten is oriented orthogonal to the screen. The locations of the dowels are shown in gray; the dowel connecting the yellow batten to the blue batten is the third and final one.
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2. Tabel by Rietvelt
3. Detail of the Chair
4. Back of the Chair
5. Front of the Chair
4. “Fan Art” of the Chair
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1. Neon Red and Blue Chair
2. Chair, Drew with Left Hand then Sculpted
3. Logo Miniature
4. Logo Model of the Chair (1:1 ratio)
5. Rietveld Schröder House
1. Exterior (View from South)
2. Exterior (Detail)
3&4. Second Floor Interior
5. Ground Floor Interior with Chair
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The Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht was built in 1924 by Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld for Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder and her three children. The house is one of the best known examples of De Stijl-architecture and arguably the only true De Stijl building.
The Rietveld Schröder House constitutes both inside and outside a radical break with all architecture before it. It is situated at the end of a terrace, but it makes no attempt to relate to its neighbouring buildings. Inside there is no static accumulation of rooms, but a dynamic, changeable open zone. The ground floor can still be termed traditional; ranged around a central staircase are kitchen and three sit/bedrooms. The living area upstairs, stated as being an attic to satisfy the fire regulations of the planning authorities, in fact forms a large open zone except for a separate toilet and a bathroom.
6. De Stijl, Dutch for "The Style", also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917 in Amsterdam. The De Stijl consisted of artists and architects. In a narrower sense, the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to 1931 founded in the Netherlands.
De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch painter, designer, writer, and critic Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931) that served to propagate the group's theories. Next to van Doesburg, the group's principal members were the painters Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), Vilmos Huszár (1884–1960), and Bart van der Leck (1876–1958), and the architects Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964).
Proponents of De Stijl advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white. Mondrian himself sets forth these delimitations in his essay "Neo-Plasticism in Pictorial Art". He writes, "this new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour, that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour". The Guggenheim Museum's online article on De Stijl summarizes these traits in similar terms: "It [De Stijl] was posited on the fundamental principle of the geometry of the straight line, the square, and the rectangle, combined with a strong asymmetricality; the predominant use of pure primary colors with black and white; and the relationship between positive and negative elements in an arrangement of non-objective forms and lines"
7. Piet Mondrian
Born: 07 March 1872; Amersfoort, Netherlands
Died: 01 February 1944; New York, United States
Active Years: 1892 - 1944
Field: painting
Nationality: Dutch
Art Movement: De Stijl (Neoplasticism)
Genre: abstract painting
1. Self Portrait
2. Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow and Black
3. New York City I
4. Victory Boogie Woogie
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8. Theo v. Doesburg
Years: 1883 - 1931
Field: painting, architecture
Nationality: Dutch
1. Self Portrait
2. Model of Private House
3. Architectural Analysis
4. Counter Composition XV
5. Design for Stained Glass Comp. XIII
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