Red and Blue Chair
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Red and Blue Chair | |
Designer : Gerrit Rietveld | |
Date : 1917 | |
Country : Netherlands | |
Materials : wood (laquered}. | |
Style/Tradition : De Stijl | |
Dimensions: 66x83x88cm (WxDxH) | |
Colours : Black, red and yellow |
The Red Blue Chair was a chair designed in 1917 by Gerrit Rietveld. It represents one of the first explorations by the De Stijl art movement in three dimensions. The original chair was not painted in the familiar De Stijl palette of primary colours, black, grey and white. However, it was later changed to resemble the paintings of Piet Mondrian when Rietveld came into contact with this artist's work in 1918. Rietveld joined the De Stijl movement in 1919.