A CRATE DESK, designed by G.Th. Rietveld, composed of wooden planks painted pale green, simple rectangular shape, with two open shelves on either side of the central kneehole, with a single stretcher near the base, the top composed of four strips, below which a narrow central open sliding shelf, circa 1934

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A CRATE DESK, designed by G.Th. Rietveld, composed of wooden planks painted pale green, simple rectangular shape, with two open shelves on either side of the central kneehole, with a single stretcher near the base, the top composed of four strips, below which a narrow central open sliding shelf, circa 1934
70.5 cm high x 103 cm long x 59.5 cm wide

Lot Essay

cf. M. Küper & I. van Zijl, G.Th. Rietveld 1888-1964 Het volledige werk, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, 1992, p. 156, for a similar desk

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