Rood Blauwe Stoel chair also known as the Rietveld Red Blue Chair by Gerrit Rietveld in the year 1918, is considered a deciding key object of modern furniture design because of the consequence with which Rietveld understood a piece of furniture as an idealistic, abstract composition of surfaces and lines in a room. The kind of abstraction that has been adopted by Rietveld in here is comparable with the one of the painter Piet Mondrian. Mondrian belonged to a selection of artists and architects – so did Rietveld later on – that grouped around Theo van Doesburg and his magazine “The Stijl”, influenciatng the 20th century art sustainably with their radical formulations. Rietveld reduced a given reality to its linear and widely-spread basics. If Mondrian had a landscape as inspiring idol, Rietveld had the idea of a traditional, massive armchair that flew in a geometric construction.

The Miniatures Collection of the Vitra Design Museum presents the most important classics of modern furniture history on a 1:6 scale and replicates the historic originals down to the smallest detail.

True to the original pieces in structure and materials, the miniatures are precision-crafted, making them a thoughtful gift for a furniture lover or design professional.

Each miniature comes handsomely packaged in a wood box with an informational booklet.

Material: Wood, lacquered

Size (l/h/w):140 x 143 x 109 mm