Rietveld Works ARCHITECT

Contemporary interior design
PRESENTING ABOUT THE ARCHITECT GERRIT RIETVELD
Presented by
Jishant hari
Shree sakthi
Gayathri
rakesh
INTRODUCTION
De Stijl, Dutch for "The Style", also known as Neoplasticism,
was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden.
De Stijl consisted of artists and architects. In a narrower sense,
the term De Stijl is used to refer to a body of work from 1917 to
1931 founded in the Netherlands.
PRINCIPLE:
The De Stijl movement posited the fundamental principle of the

geometry of the straight line, the square, and the rectangle,
combined with a strong asymmetricality; the predominant use
of pure primary colors with black and white; and the
relationship between positive and negative elements in an
arrangement of non-objective forms and lines.
GERRIT THOMAS RIETVELD
BORN
24 June 1888(Utrecht, Netherlands)
GERRIT THOMAS RIETVELD
DIED
25 June 1964 (aged 76)
NATIONALITY
Dutch
OCCUPATION
Architect and Furniture designer. One of the principal
Members of Dutch artistic movement or De stijl.
KNOWN FOR
Rood-blauw stoel (Red and Blue Chair) and for
the Rietveld Schröder House,which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
AWARDS
Sikkens Prize
RECOGNITION
-Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.
-"Gerrit Rietveld: A Centenary Exhibition" at the Barry Friedman Gallery, New York,
- “Rietveld Year” in Utrecht
- Gerrit and Rietveld(Two software tools, both for code review, named after Gerrit Rietveld)
Following are the major projects done
by Gerrit Rietveld:
•Red and Blue Chair (1917)
•Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht (1924)
•Hillebrandt House, The Hague, 1935
•Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
•Muziekschool, Zeist (1932)
•the Schroder House (1924)
•the Zig-Zag chair
•mass-produced houses at Utrecht (1931–34)
•the De Ploeg Textile Works (1956)
•Bergeyk; a housing development (1954–56)
•the art academy (1962), Arnhem
•Stoop House, Velp, 1951
•the Hoograven Housing complex, Utrecht (1954-
1957)
•the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht (1956)
•the De Ploeg textile factory, Bergeyk (1956)
The Rietveld Schröder House
•In 1924, Truus Schröder asked well-known Utrecht
furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld to design a new house for
her.
•Schröder played an important role in the design process.
She knew exactly what she wanted: simplicity and a space
that freed rather than constrained her.
•Until then, Rietveld had created mainly furniture and
scale models. His renowned Red and Blue Chair, for example,
was designed around 1919. Never before had he been asked
to design an entire house.
•For Rietveld, Schröder's project was a dream come true.
He pulled out all the stops, trying out new ideas in keeping
with De Stijl.
•De Stijl was a Dutch artistic movement named after
an eponymous modern art magazine first published in
1917. Rietveld was one of the movement's leading
exponents.
•The Rietveld Schröder House is an embodiment of De Stijl.
Characteristic features include the fluid
transitions between interior and exterior, the
clean horizontal and vertical lines and the use of
all primary colours, alongside white, grey
and black.
RIETVELD SCHRÖDER HOUSE INTERIOR
•Rietveld's ideal house was spacious, simple and

functional. He came up with all kinds of clever solutions to
achieve this.
•One such idea involved sliding walls on the first floor. By day,
this was an open space, but in the evening,
the Schröder family could split it up into three separate
rooms. There was one room for the daughters, another for the
son, and a living room with a table and stove, giving
everyone some privacy.
•Iconic corner window -Another of Rietveld's clever ideas was
the iconic corner window on the top floor. Both the large
window and the small one perpendicular to it swing open,
dissolving the corner to make it feel like one is outdoors.
•Rietveld also came up with the idea to use wooden panels as
shutters for the windows. This creates a sense of peaceful security in
the house.
•Three dimensions lamp - Rietveld sought to make the most of the
space in and around the house. He did this by incorporating three-
dimensionality – height, width and depth – in all facets of the design.
Take this lamp, for example.
The staircase is concealed behind

a sliding door. This created a
quiet spot for the telephone in the
hallway and also served to shut
out the cold.
Van gogh museum in amsterdam
•The museum contains the largest collection of Van Gogh's
paintings and drawings in the world. In 2017, the museum
had 2.3 million visitors and was the most-visited museum
in the Netherlands, and the 23rd-most-visited art museum
in the world.
The entrance
•The Rietveld building is the main structure and houses the
permanent collection. It has a rectangular floor plan and is
four stories high.
•On the ground floor are a shop, a café, and an
introductory exhibition.
•The first floor shows the works of Van Gogh grouped
chronologically.
•The second floor gives information about the restoration of
paintings and has a space for minor temporary exhibitions.
• The third floor shows paintings of Van Gogh's
contemporaries in relationship to the work of Van Gogh
himself The Rietveld building
Van gogh museum in amsterdam
Red blue chair
• The Red and Blue Chair is a chair designed in 1917
by Gerrit Rietveld. It represents one of the first
explorations by the De Stijl art movement in three
dimensions.
• Originally made in plain beech wood, the design was

deliberately kept as simple as possible because Rietveld
wanted it to be mass-produced rather than crafted by
hand.
• Rietveld joined the De Stijl movement and it was under

the auspices of its most famous member, Piet Mondrian,
in 1923 the chair was painted in the distinctive colours
of red, yellow, blue and black.
• Furniture was simplified to horizontal and vertical lines

and they used only the primary colours with black and
white.
Zig zag chair
•The Zig Zag-chair is a chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in
1934.
•It is a minimalistic design without legs, made by 4 flat

wooden tiles that are merged in a Z-shape using Dovetail
joints. It was designed for Rietveld's Rietveld Schröder
House in Utrecht
•It was no standard seat, but to everyone’s surprise the

armless, legless, cantilevered form—a mere sliver in
profile—was simultaneously comfortable and sturdy.
•“It is not a chair but a designer’s joke,” Rietveld famously

said of his Zig-Zag.

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Contemporary interior design

PRESENTING ABOUT THE ARCHITECT GERRIT RIETVELD

The De Stijl movement posited the fundamental principle of the

RIETVELD SCHRÖDER HOUSE INTERIOR

•Rietveld's ideal house was spacious, simple and

The staircase is concealed behind

• Originally made in plain beech wood, the design was

• Rietveld joined the De Stijl movement and it was under

• Furniture was simplified to horizontal and vertical lines

•It is a minimalistic design without legs, made by 4 flat

•It was no standard seat, but to everyone’s surprise the

•“It is not a chair but a designer’s joke,” Rietveld famously

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