Gerrit Rietveld Zig-Zag chair

This modern chair after a design of the Bauhaus architect and painter Gerrit Rietveld, is made of natural wood.
It's a screwed and glued ash solid wood construction. Of course, the naming of the chair appears each obvious.

Dimensions:
37cm x 43cm x 75cm (width x depth x height)

Gerrit Rietveld Stuhl Zig Zag ✔ Designklassiker Stuhl

Gerrit Rietveld
Gerrit Rietveld was born in Utrecht, as the son of a cabinetmaker. At age eleven, he began working in his father´s workshop. In 1911, he opened his own business and attended courses in draftsmanship from PJC Klaarhamer. From 1917 to 1918 he designed the Red Blue Chair, and was in 1919 one of the first members of the De Stijl movement. This famous chair design was first published in the magazine "De Stijl" and included in the Bauhaus Exhibition of 1923. To Rietveld´s mos...
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The Bauhaus architect and furniture designer Gerrit Rietveld* designed the Zig-Zag chair in 1934. Consisting of four planar elements and originally in oak wood with brass fittings (later cherry with complex indenting) it's radically departed from the traditional chair design. Minimum average, and simply stacked, the Zig-Zag chair is both practical and historical revolutionary.

Within the complete works of Gerrit Rietveld, the Zig-Zag chair is the most economical example of material form. With such an uncompromising reduced chair design even the glands of the chair appeared as decorative. Simple geometric shapes without any ornamental surface design refer to the most original concept ideas of Bauhaus furniture.

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