Gerrit Th. Rietveld, Aluminium Chair

Gerrit Th. Rietveld (1888-1964)
(attributed)

Aluminium chair
ca.1960

Folded and bent out of a sheet of aluminium, assembled using blind-rivets and welding.

In the 20th century various architects tried to design a Chair that could be produced from a single piece of material. Gerrit Rietveld designed a series of furniture that were produced by folding and bending one sheet of plywood, fiberboard or aluminium. Four easy-chairs were made that way out of a sheet of aluminium, in the period 1940-1964. To reinforce the thin aluminium sheets, a pattern of holes was pressed in.

Being a specialized museum in the works of Rietveld, The Centraal Museum in Utrecht was approached in 2010 by someone from England who had two unknown high versions of the ‘aluminium stoel’ in his possession. The Centraal Museum bought one of the chairs for their collection in 2012, the other one is purchased by us.

The chairs origin from the USA, we are still doing research after; when and by whom the chairs were produced.
Provenance: Howard en Sue Van Wagner, Malibu, California USA.

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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