Gerrit Rietveld - Wikipedia
Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect.
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Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was a Dutch architect and furniture designer notable for his application of the tenets of the de Stijl movement. He was an apprentice in his father’s cabinetmaking business from 1899 to 1906 and later studied architecture in Utrecht.
Biography - Rietveld Stichting
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld was born in Utrecht on June 24, 1888, the second of six children of furniture maker Johannes Cornelis Rietveld (1860-1933) and Elisabeth van der Horst (1860-1927). It was a stern reformed family.
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Rietveld develops into a versatile designer with a strong vision; his architecture and furniture designs become world-famous. His Red and Blue Chair, Zig-Zag Chair, Crate pieces and Press Room Chair are now true design classics that are impossible to imagine museums and modern interiors without.
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Gerrit Rietveld (24 June 1888 – 25 June 1964) was a Dutch furniture designer and architect. Born 24 June 1888; died 25 June 1964. Rietveld apprenticed in his father's cabinet-making shop in Utrecht from 1899 to 1906. He worked as a draughtsman or a designer at C.J. Begeer's Jewellery Studio, Utrecht from 1906 to 1911.
Gerrit Rietveld - Famous Architects
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, a dutch architect and furniture designer, was born on June 24, 1888 in Utrecht, Netherlands. Son of a joiner and carpenter, Rietveld left school at the age of 11 and got admission at a night school. His father trained him as a cabinetmaker from 1899 to 1906.
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In the dynamic era of the avant-garde in the art world, Gerrit Rietveld developed from furniture maker to architect. In total he designed and realised more than 100 houses, ten larger buildings and three social housing projects.