Gerrit Th. Rietveld, Aluminium Chair

Gerrit Th. Rietveld (1888-1964)

Aluminium side/table chair

Design: Utrecht The Netherlands, after 1951
Manufacture: Unknown
Executed between ca.1951-1964

Side/table chair, folded and bent out of a sheet of aluminum, assembled using blind-rivets and welding. 77 x 79 x 61 cm.

Like other architects and designers, the Dutch architect Gerrit Th. Rietveld attempted to design furniture that could be machine-made by folding and bending one sheet of material. In the period 1940-1964, four easy-chairs and two identical side/table chairs were made after Rietveld’s design for a chair made of a sheet of aluminum. To reinforce the thin aluminum sheets, Rietveld had a pattern of holes made pressed in, which gives the chairs a futuristic machine look.

One of the two existing Rietveld Aluminum side/table chairs was bought by the ‘Centraal Museum’ in Utrecht The Netherlands in 2012, which leaves this copy the only available on the market.

 

Provenance:
before 1973: Howard en Sue Van Wagner, Malibu, California USA;
Ca. 1973: Mr. Ul Alam, England;
2009-2010: Sham Ul Alam, Manchester England;
2012: One of the chairs purchased by the ‘Centraal Museum’, Utrecht The Netherlands;
2013: The remaining chair purchased by fine art dealer Javier Doria in Spain;
2014: John Turner Fairchild, collector at Ibiza Spain/Los Angeles USA;
2014-2025: Van den Bruinhorst Gallery, Kampen The Netherlands

Exhibited: Rome Italy, museum MAXXI,Rietveld’s Universe 2011.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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