Gerrit Th. Rietveld (1888-1964)
‘Vijverhof Wall Light’, 1935
Chrome-plated brass frame holding five opal glass plates mounted on a brass base with electric fitting.
Dimensions: 20,5 x 10,5 x 21,5 cm/8,1 x 4,1 x 8,5 Inch.
Executed by: The Dutch avant-garde warehouse ‘Metz & Co’. under Rietveld’s control, Amsterdam/The Hague, The Netherlands ca. 1935.
Over several decades, the Dutch feminist, patron and art collector Ada Helena Hondius-Crone (1893 – 1996) commissioned progressive designers and architects for renovations and interior design projects. Around 1935, Gerrit Rietveld received the commission to renovate one of her houses, a villa in the village of Bloemendaal, named ‘Vijverhof’. Küper and Van Zijl, p. 164: “The renovation included a library, living room, entrance hall, and studio. Several of Rietveld’s designs were also installed in the house, such as a glass tube lamp on the ceiling.”
Next to the Large tube lamp, Rietveld also had this small wall light from the same series mounted on one of the walls of ‘Vijverhof’.
Provenance:
Ms. Ada Helena Hondius Crone, Bloemendaal-Amsterdam, The Netherlands ca. 1935-1984; Christies Amsterdam no. 52, 1990; Sotheby’s New York no. 153, 2013; Private collector 2013-2025.
Literature
Marijke Küper, Ida van Zijl, Gerrit Th. Rietveld 1888-1964, The Complete Works, Centraal Museum Utrecht 1992, p. 164 cat.no. 232; Peter Vöge, The complete Rietveld Furniture, 010 Publishers Rotterdam 1993, p. 100-101, cat.no. 174.
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