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    Gerrit Rietveld was a young rationalist artist, active and committed, who joined the,,De Stijl" movement. The impact of his designs galvanized a renaissance that would influence the worlds of architecture and design for decades to come. He seemed to possess two personalities, each so distinct that one might take his work to be that of more than one artist.

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    Gerrit Rietveld was a young rationalist artist, active and committed, who joined the,,De Stijl" movement. The impact of his designs galvanized a renaissance that would influence the worlds of architecture and design for decades to come. He seemed to possess two personalities, each so distinct that one might take his work to be that of more than one artist.

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    Gerrit Thomas Rietveld

    Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a young rationalist artist, active and committed, who joined the De Stijl movement. Considered as a luminary artist of this style he created ground-breaking works both in architecture and furniture design. The The Stijl movement tended to translate and compose in ideology the theme of dynamic breakdown and decomposition that had already been expressed in cubist painting.

    He seemed to possess two personalities, each so distinct that one might take his work to be that of more than one artist. The first personality is that seen in the craftsman cabinet-maker working in a primordial idiom, re-inventing chairs and other furniture as if no one had ever built them before, and following a structural code all of his own; the second is that of the architect working with elegant formulas, determined to drive home the rationalist and neoplastic message in the context of European architecture.

    G.T.Rietveld Schroder-house

    Gerrit Rietveld meant to attain a universal modernization of arts by means of a geometrically reduced and purely forms, principles that could be applied to all objects of utility. Vertical and horizontal lines and a pure black and white as well as the basic colours that dominated the design ideas of De Stijl, were combined in his masterpiece "Rot-Blau-Stuhl" (Red-Blue-Chair) from 1918. This work is a redefinition of seating furniture: the chair is an ingenious yet simple combination of basic rectangular shapes, coloured in red, blue, yellow and black, that seize the room. Colours had a symbolical meaning: yellow represented the power source of the Sun, blue stood for the horizontal lines essential to architecture, while red suggested the partnership between the two.

    G.T.Rietveld Mondial Chair

    The impact of Rietveld's designs galvanized a renaissance that would influence the worlds of architecture and design for decades to come.

    G.T.Rietveld Side Table

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