What did Gerrit Rietveld do for us?
Europe, The Netherlands, Utrecht, Moderrnist terraced housing Erasmuslaan, Display case, Gerrit Rietveld furniture, De Stijl, (slightly cut from all sides)
Gerrit Rietveld was a designer/architect. As an influential member of the ‘De Stijl’ (a modern art movement, named after the art magazine of of the same name, which was founded in 1917). In this capacity he was one of the figureheads of the international modernist movement.
Amongst the chairs shown here are: Steltman, Red-blue, Berlin, Utrecht, Zig zag, Crate and Press room chair. The Elling cupboard and military table are also present.
During a presentation in the Utrecht Central Museum, Gerrit Rietveld long ago said:
“In order to become completely free of tradition as a transition and as a study, early and pure enough to be able to be the background and breeding ground for the new (modern, BH) life, many ideas had to be cherished and presented and after that wholeheartedly unlearned again. De Stijl and the Bauhaus have done a lot for this. De Stijl went almost scientifically in search of the elements of seeing. We tried to find the simplest things, the indivisible facial impressions, And we dissected the white light into the 3 colours to which our eyes are sensitive. And found that the impression red was an indivisible impression and thus a purely primal and elementary feeling. We worked with these feelings."
In his furniture design, he married modernism/functionalism with consumerism. Well in a way consumerism was always one of the roots of the modernist movement.
The title is of course an allusion to the BBC documentaries: "What did the Romans, Victorians etc do for us."
This is number 1120 of Minimalism explicit graphism
What did Gerrit Rietveld do for us?
Europe, The Netherlands, Utrecht, Moderrnist terraced housing Erasmuslaan, Display case, Gerrit Rietveld furniture, De Stijl, (slightly cut from all sides)
Gerrit Rietveld was a designer/architect. As an influential member of the ‘De Stijl’ (a modern art movement, named after the art magazine of of the same name, which was founded in 1917). In this capacity he was one of the figureheads of the international modernist movement.
Amongst the chairs shown here are: Steltman, Red-blue, Berlin, Utrecht, Zig zag, Crate and Press room chair. The Elling cupboard and military table are also present.
During a presentation in the Utrecht Central Museum, Gerrit Rietveld long ago said:
“In order to become completely free of tradition as a transition and as a study, early and pure enough to be able to be the background and breeding ground for the new (modern, BH) life, many ideas had to be cherished and presented and after that wholeheartedly unlearned again. De Stijl and the Bauhaus have done a lot for this. De Stijl went almost scientifically in search of the elements of seeing. We tried to find the simplest things, the indivisible facial impressions, And we dissected the white light into the 3 colours to which our eyes are sensitive. And found that the impression red was an indivisible impression and thus a purely primal and elementary feeling. We worked with these feelings."
In his furniture design, he married modernism/functionalism with consumerism. Well in a way consumerism was always one of the roots of the modernist movement.
The title is of course an allusion to the BBC documentaries: "What did the Romans, Victorians etc do for us."
This is number 1120 of Minimalism explicit graphism