Gerrit Th. Rietveld (1888-1964)
Metz & Co Sideboard r45, 1936
Painted Beech wood, plywood, metal and (wire) glass.
Dimensions: 93 x 200 x 51.5 cm /36,6 x 78,7 x 20,3 In
Executed by: The Dutch avant-garde department store ‘Metz & Co’, under control of Gerrit Rietveld, Amsterdam/The Hague, The Netherlands, ca.1940
In commission of Metz & Co in Amsterdam, Rietveld designed a small sideboard in 1932 consisting of wire glass sliding doors on a chromed steel base that could be combined with a separate drawer unit. With this design as a starting point he created sideboard r45 in 1936 which is a combination of the small sideboard and the drawer unit in one piece.
Sideboard r45 is designed like a modernist building, with a glass-and-steel facade. Like with the ‘Rietveld-Schröder House’ he designed at the beginning of his career, the inside and outside stay connected by leaving the corner of the glass windows open.
Exhibited
Bas van Pelt, The Hague, 1960
Provenance
Mr and Mrs Montagne-Van Lommel, Rotterdam 1941;
Mrs. H.H. Van Domisse-Van Lommel, 1947 the Hague;
Mrs. Foss-Montagne 1991;
Sotheby’s Amsterdam 1995;
Private collector Amsterdam.
Literature:
P. Timmer, Metz & Co de creatieve jaren, 010 Publishers Rotterdam 1995, p.130, cat.no.179-180; Marijke Küper, Ida van Zijl, Gerrit Th. Rietveld, The Complete Works, Centraal Museum Utrecht 1992, p. 204, cat.no. 322.
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