RESEARCH BINDER

YOU LU

The original chair was constructed of unstained beech wood and

was not painted until the early 1920s. Fellow member of De Stijl and

architect, Bart van der Leck, saw his original model and suggested

that he add bright colours. He built the new model of thinner wood

and painted it entirely black with areas of primary colors attributed

to De Stijl movement.

The Museum of Modern Art houses the chair in its permanent

collection. The red, blue and yellow colors were added around 1923.

Red and Blue Chairby Gerrit Rietvelt

12

34

1. Bart van der Leck2. Gerrit Rietvelt3. Original Chair (Copy) 4. Red and Blue Chair Photo from MoMA

Rietvelt JointA Rietveld joint, also called a Cartesian node in

furniture-making, is an overlapping joint of three

battens in the three orthogonal directions. It was a

prominent feature in the Red and Blue Chair that was

designed by Gerrit Rietveld.

Fig.1 is a schematic depiction of a Rietveld joint. The

three battens are shown in the primary colours red,

blue and yellow, where the yellow batten is oriented

orthogonal to the screen. The locations of the dowels

are shown in gray; the dowel connecting the yellow

batten to the blue batten is the third and final one.

12

43

5

2. Tabel by Rietvelt3. Detail of the Chair4. Back of the Chair5. Front of the Chair

“Fan Art” of the Chair

12

4 3

1. Neon Red and Blue Chair2. Chair, Drew with Left Hand then Sculpted3. Logo Miniature 4. Logo Model of the Chair (1:1 ratio)

Rietveld Schröder House

1. Exterior (View from South)2. Exterior (Detail)3&4. Second Floor Interior5. Ground Floor Interior with Chair

12

4

3

5

The Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht was built in 1924 by Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld for Mrs. Truus Schröder-Schräder and her three children. The house is one of the best known examples of De Stijl-architecture and arguably the only true De Stijl building.The Rietveld Schröder House constitutes both inside and outside a radical break with all architecture before it. It is situated at the end of a terrace, but it makes no attempt to relate to its neighbouring buildings. Inside there is no static accumulation of rooms, but a dynamic, changeable open zone. The ground floor can still be termed traditional; ranged around a central staircase are kitchen and three sit/bedrooms. The living area upstairs, stated as being an attic to satisfy the fire regulations of the planning authorities, in fact forms a large open zone except for a separate toilet and a bathroom.

De Stijl, Dutch for "The Style", also known as neoplasticism, was a Dutch artistic movement founded in 1917 in Amsterdam. The

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.

De Stijl is also the name of a journal that was published by the Dutch painter, designer, writer, and critic Theo van Doesburg (1883–1931)

that served to propagate the group's theories. Next to van Doesburg, the group's principal members were the painters Piet Mondrian

(1872–1944), Vilmos Huszár (1884–1960), and Bart van der Leck (1876–1958), and the architects Gerrit Rietveld (1888–1964).

Proponents of De Stijl advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour; they simplified

visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white. Mondrian himself

sets forth these delimitations in his essay "Neo-Plasticism in Pictorial Art". He writes, "this new plastic idea will ignore the particulars of

appearance, that is to say, natural form and colour. On the contrary, it should find its expression in the abstraction of form and colour,

that is to say, in the straight line and the clearly defined primary colour". The Guggenheim Museum's online article on De Stijl summarizes

these traits in similar terms: "It [De Stijl] was posited on 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"

Piet MondrianBorn: 07 March 1872; Amersfoort,

Netherlands

Died: 01 February 1944; New York,

United States

Active Years: 1892 - 1944

Field: painting

Nationality: Dutch

Art Movement: De Stijl (Neoplasticism)

Genre: abstract painting

1. Self Portrait2. Lozenge Composition with Red, Gray, Blue, Yellow and Black3. New York City I4. Victory Boogie Woogie

123

4

Theo v. Doesburg

Years: 1883 - 1931

Field: painting, architecture

Nationality: Dutch

1. Self Portrait2. Model of Private House3. Architectural Analysis 4. Counter Composition XV5. Design for Stained Glass Comp. XIII

124

35

#dc091a #223c86 #e1d021 #171619

#ff0000 #0000ff #ffff00 #000000

#f21a1a #013178 #fee42f #050408

#e72f25 #0464ad #d7c963 #0d0f17

#c73e23 #3f4962 #d8a646 #18140b

#2b3136 #73727e #aeabad #f5f5f3

#354c4f #e2ecf8

#504c3f #e4e3e0

#f5f5f5

#fffff

CHAIR

DIGITAL

EXTERIOR

ITERIOR COLD

ITERIOR WARM